Emergency & Critical Care

With his fifth edition, Chief John Norman offers lessons learned during his extensive and time-honored career. Chief Norman imparts wisdom and experience by offering advice informed by actual outcomes from the fireground....

One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care....

My career as a firefighter/paramedic stretched from 1974 to 2000 when were inventing EMS as we went along. These are stories from those years on the street. That place I named so long ago, the other reality that exists just outside most people’s everyday lives....

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH “This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence One of NPR’s 11...

This unique medical book is meant to enable the average person to handle injuries and illness in situations in which modern medical facilities and professionals aren't available due to a disaster....

A paramedic story that takes places in the wild and sheds a never-seen-before light on wilderness medicine, our national parks, and conflicts that arise between tourism and protecting the land....

This “comforting…thoughtful” (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a “roadmap to the end that...

The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds - as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan Halifax's decades of work....

On a mountain somewhere above treeline, in some of the coldest and worst winter conditions imaginable, two men lie unconscious in the snow as explosive winds batter the nearby summits....

This revolutionary nursing resource transforms 110 essential critical care topics into engaging poems that stick in your mind when it matters most.

Emergency doctors or not, we all face emergencies in our lives--times when we must make critical decisions in high-stakes, uncertain, pressure-filled environments.

Winner of a Christopher Award—now with a discussion guide “Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books like this one, is that the ICU experience can be changed for the better” (The Washington Post) for both patients and their families. You will learn how in this...

All Bleeding Stops gives listeners an intimate look at what goes on inside a trauma center, highlighting injuries sustained in car crashes, shootings, and stabbings—basically anything bleeding, obstructed, or perforated....

Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks - that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine....

For fans of The Pitt, a look at life on the front line in one of Canada’s busiest ERs The Casino Shift is an hour-by-hour account of what a Canadian emergency room is like in these turbulent times when ER staff must be prepared to see, diagnose, and treat any condition, often under unrelenting...

You are no doubt a busy individual with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the CCRN exam. However, the truth is that the CCRN test is a challenging exam. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test....

This guide offers an in-depth exploration of all essential topics outlined in the EMT Candidate Handbook.

This comprehensive guide covers everything from airway management and patient assessment to trauma care and medical emergencies, this audiobook is designed to equip you with the skills needed to provide effective care in high-pressure situations.

They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. Experience the life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, in this important book putting a spotlight on America’s greatest unsung heroes. Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and...

For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book “Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review “An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.” —Ellen Pompeo As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with...

Standing in the trauma room of an emergency department is like standing at ground zero of a nuclear reaction, only it's not radiation that is released - but stories....

Passing the NBRC Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) Exam is a crucial step toward advancing a career in respiratory therapy. Conquer the NBRC ...

As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession....

Introspective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A Real Emergency is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of her career. For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private notebooks with her confusion, humor, and anger toward the strange world of emergency street...

For fans of The Pitt, a look at life on the front line in one of Canada’s busiest ERs The Casino Shift is an hour-by-hour account of what a Canadian emergency room is like in these turbulent times when ER staff must be prepared to see, diagnose, and treat any condition, often under unrelenting...

Against the background of broad brush strokes of Nepal’s history and geography, David Hawker tells a dramatic story. After 20 years working in Nepal, Nurse Ellen Findlay saw an opportunity to go and attempt to meet the desperate needs of people living in the remote and inaccessible mountains of Nepal. With vision, determination and bravery, she and surgeon Mike Smith pioneered outreach into some of Nepal’s most isolated and poverty-stricken communities.

What if the most dangerous patients are the ones who don’t look sick? In emergency medicine, nursing, and prehospital care, decisions are often made in seconds, under pressure, with incomplete information. Experience sharpens instinct, but it also creates shortcuts. Familiar stories feel safe. Certain patients feel predictable. And sometimes, that certainty arrives too early. The Patient Who Didn’t Look Sick explores how clinical judgment is shaped long before tests are ordered or diagnoses are made. This book examines cognitive bias, premature closure, labeling, authority influence, ...

Cardiology for the Streets What Paramedics Actually Need to Know Before the Hospital Steals the Patient Most cardiology books are written for classrooms and hospitals. This one is written for the street. Cardiology for the Streets is a practical, experience-driven guide to cardiac decision-making in prehospital and frontline emergency care, where information is incomplete, ECGs are often nondiagnostic, and the most important decisions are made before labs, imaging, or cardiology consults exist. This is not a protocol manual. It is a book about judgment. Written by a registered nurse, ...

Sepsis doesn’t crash patients. It whispers first. Most sepsis books teach you what to do after organ failure shows up. This one is about the moment before it does. Sepsis for the Streets is written for paramedics, EMTs, and prehospital clinicians who meet sepsis while the patient still looks “fine.” Before the vitals fall apart. Before anyone agrees it’s serious. Before the miss becomes obvious in hindsight. This is not a protocol book. There are no checklists. No formulas. No sepsis scores to memorize. Instead, this book teaches how to see early sepsis when nothing forces your hand...