Medical assistants: Mark II

Clinical procedures for medical assistants

presented in a clear format, with easy to read text and clearly labelled illustrations. There is emphasis throughout on patient care. The suggestion that planning, organisation and critical thinking skills should be developed for effective trauma radiography, will stimulate interest in many experienced radiographers. The first five chapters of the book provide information on relevant aspects of...

Training medical assistants for surgery.

A successful programme is reported from Mozambique for training middle-level health workers to perform fairly advanced surgical procedures in remote areas where the services of consultants are virtually unobtainable. Manpower and financial constraints obliged Mozambique to train medical assistants to perform surgical work in rural areas, where three broad priorities were identified: pregnancy-r...

Medical assistants: the future nurses?

GeV from MARK II

Results on hadronic final states in e'e' annihilation are reported. The data were collected with t he MARK II detector at the PEP storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, operating at a center-of-mass energy of ds=29 GeV The MARK II detector, a 4.5 KG solenoid with cylindrical drift chambers, surrounded by a liquid argon calorimeter, has events are selected by least 5 charged pat...

Chapter 18 Mark II

Renal Injuries Most renal injuries, except for those of the renal pedicle, are not acutely life threatening. Undiagnosed or improperly treated injuries, however, may cause significant morbidity. While the vast majority of blunt renal injuries will heal uneventfully with observation and conservative therapy, a significant number of renal injuries in combat will come from penetrating wounds and r...