[PDF] The American Red Cross eBook

Author : American Red Cross
Publisher : Staywell Company
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781584804796

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Rev. ed. of: First aid/CPR/AED for schools and the community. 3rd ed. c2006.

Author : Marian Moser Jones
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1421408236

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The iconic relief organization’s activities over a half century of history, through wars, epidemics, and other disasters: “Well-researched . . . fascinating.” —Julia F. Irwin, Bulletin of the History of Medicine In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onto Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal tells the story of the charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, natural disasters, and the Depression, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Marian Moser Jones illustrates the tension between the organization’s founding principles of humanity and neutrality and the political, economic, and moral pressures that sometimes caused it to favor one group at the expense of another. This book tells the stories of: • U.S. natural disasters such as the Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888, the Sea Islands hurricane of 1893, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake • crises abroad, including the 1892 Russian famine and the Armenian massacres of 1895–96 • efforts to help civilians affected by the civil war in Cuba • power struggles within the American Red Cross leadership and subsequent alliances with the American government • the organization’s expansion during World War I • race riots and massacres in East St. Louis, Chicago, and Tulsa between 1917 and 1921 • help for African American and white Southerners after the Mississippi flood of 1927 • relief projects during the Dust Bowl and after the New Deal An epilogue relates the history of the American Red Cross since the beginning of World War II and illuminates the organization’s current practices and international reputation.

Author : Julia F. Irwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0199990085

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In Making the World Safe, historian Julia Irwin offers an insightful account of the American Red Cross, from its founding in 1881 by Clara Barton to its rise as the government's official voluntary aid agency. Equally important, Irwin shows that the story of the Red Cross is simultaneously a story of how Americans first began to see foreign aid as a key element in their relations with the world. As the American Century dawned, more and more Americans saw the need to engage in world affairs and to make the world a safer place--not by military action but through humanitarian aid. It was a time perfectly suited for the rise of the ARC. Irwin shows how the early and vigorous support of William H. Taft--who was honorary president of the ARC even as he served as President of the United States--gave the Red Cross invaluable connections with the federal government, eventually making it the official agency to administer aid both at home and abroad. Irwin describes how, during World War I, the ARC grew at an explosive rate and extended its relief work for European civilians into a humanitarian undertaking of massive proportions, an effort that was also a major propaganda coup. Irwin also shows how in the interwar years, the ARC's mission meshed well with presidential diplomatic styles, and how, with the coming of World War II, the ARC once again grew exponentially, becoming a powerful part of government efforts to bring aid to war-torn parts of the world. The belief in the value of foreign aid remains a central pillar of U.S. foreign relations. Making the World Safe reveals how this belief took hold in America and the role of the American Red Cross in promoting it.

Author : American Red Cross
Publisher : Krames-Staywell
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781584804871

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As the number of community pools and waterparks grows nationwide, participation in aquatic activities is also growing. Lifeguards must receive proper and effective training, and maintain their skills to ensure their ability to work effective with others as a part of a lifeguard team. This manual will supplement your in-service training to keep your knowledge and skills sharp.

Author : American Red Cross
Publisher : Staywell (CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Automated external defibrillation
ISBN : 9781584803041

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This New American Red Cros CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer Participant's Manual and course reflect changes based on the 2005 Consensus on Science for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) and the Guidelines 2005 for First Aid. Changes to this program and manual include simplifications to many of the CPR skill sequences, which helps improve retention. There have also been changes to help improve the quality of CPR. The integration of CPR skills into the operation of AEDs had changed to help improve survival from sudden cardiac arrest. Professional rescuers are now trained to use AEDs on adults and children. Information has been updated and added to this program to help professional rescuers administer epinephrine, aspirin and fixed-flow-rate oxygen. The skills learned in this course include adult, child and infant rescue breathing, conscious and unconscious choking, CPR, two-rescuer CPR and adult and child AED. Additional training can be added to this course including bloodborne pathogens training and emergency oxygen administration. While the skills and knowledge that professional rescuers use are increasing, this training will help you meet your most important responsibility as a professional rescuer- the responsibility to save lives.

Author : Clara Barton
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
ISBN :

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Die Geschichte des Roten Kreuzes der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und seine Einsätze im Ausland während der Zeit von 1880 - 1900.

Author : American Red Cross
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 1992-05-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780316736466

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The first moments after an injury occurs are the most critical. This authoritative guidebook, based on course materials used by Red Cross chapters across the United States, shows you how to handle every type of first aid emergency.