CHEMISTRY: Beyond the Basics

Beyond the basics.

Beyond the basics: trauma assessment.

Your patient assessment, including a history and, more important, in the trauma patient, the physical exam, and the mechanism of injury will determine treatment and transport priorities. The No. 1 consideration in managing the trauma patient is to establish and maintain an effective airway, ventilation, oxygenation and circulation. Recognizing that the trauma patient needs immediate definitive ...

1 Basics of Corrosion Chemistry

Metallic materials in practical use are normally exposed to corrosion in the atmospheric and aqueous environments. Metallic corrosion is one of the problems we have often encountered in our industrialized society; hence it has been studied comprehensively since the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth century. Modern corrosion science was set off in the early twentieth century with the ...

LSHSS Phonological Awareness Intervention: Beyond the Basics

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to advance practitioners’ knowledge base of best practices in phonological awareness intervention to facilitate the implementation of evidenceor research-based practices in everyday clinical practice. Although most speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have a basic knowledge of phonological awareness, this article provides additional information on the vari...

Back to Basics: Beyond Network Hygiene

In the past, Computer Network Defense (CND) intended to be minimally intrusive to the other requirements of IT development, business, and operations. This paper outlines how different security paradigms have failed to become effective defense approaches, and what the root cause of the current situation is. Based on these observations, a different point of view is proposed: acknowledging the inh...