Critical Care Transport

Flight Medicine: The Pursuit of Excellence is a book that will inspire flight medicine enthusiasts, students in high school and college, current flight team members, or professionals who aspire to fly for an air medical program. This book is the culmination of lessons learned during 13.5 years working as a flight nurse. Due to an accident, Dan Turner became disabled physically and this book is his final contribution to a career that he truly loved. It passes on a career’s worth of knowledge from the eyes of one of the best clinicians to ever have flown.

This crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you’re simply interested in the subject of critical care medicine. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school critical care medicine course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master critical care medicine.

In her former career as an English professor, Theresa Brown had been shielded from the harsh reality of death. That all changed the day she decided to become an oncology nurse. In Critical Care, Theresa writes powerfully and honestly about her first year on the hospital floor. With great compassion and a disarming sense of humor, she shares the trials and triumphs of her patients and comes to realize that caring for a patient means much more than simply treating a disease.

When Dr. Ernst stands in the center of the ICU, surrounded on all sides by computer terminals and cardiac monitors, he imagines he is on the bridge of the starship Enterprise, a guardian of unknown galaxies. But by 3:00 a.m. the space fantasy has dissipated into the air like so much ether, leaving behind only a profound and desperate desire for sleep. The needs of Ernst’s patients are as endless as his round of duty. Their lives are mere blips on the VDT console, their last bids for fading life sound as alarm bells in the night.

Conquer the CTRN Exam: Your Guide to Certified Transport Registered Nurse Certification from BCEN offers a focused and accessible overview designed specifically for nurses preparing to earn their Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN) credential. Rather than attempting to cover every topic in exhaustive depth, this guide targets the essential concepts transport nurses need to understand—from trauma response and ventilator management to pediatric and obstetrical transport scenarios. Each chapter highlights the foundational clinical principles critical for managing patients in motion, ...