Prevention is the best medicine, but injury or illness can still happen. "Medical Emergencies in Early Childhood Settings" is an up-to-date reference guide for quickly addressing medical situations, designed with tabbed pages and spiral binding for easy page turning and hands-free reading. "Medical Emergencies" walks caregivers through the crucial steps in helping treat children's injuries or sudden illnesses, including cuts and scrapes, bites and stings, dental injury, choking, allergic reactions, and many more. This quick guide also offers advice on when to call for paramedics, recommendations for staff training and assembling a first aid kit, and prevention tips for your child care environment. This quick guide is an up-to-date medical resource where you will find: advice on when you should call for paramedics, concise and easy-to-access lists of what to do and what not to do when faced with a child's injury or illness, standard precautions to reduce the spread of infection and germs, prevention tips to use in your child care environment, information on preparing for emergencies, including recommendations for training and assembling an appropriate first aid kit, and resourcees for further reading on medical topics.

ISBN UPC:	9781933653624
Format:	Softcover
Cover:	Spiral Bound
Author:	Dr. Charlotte M Hendricks, HSD
Copyright:	2008