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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Staywell
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781584803003ISBN:1584803002
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Edition: 3rd/ Edition
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Publisher: The American National Red Cross, Yardley, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781584803003ISBN:1584803002
Description: Good. Tight Clean Text. Light Edge Wear. Contents: If not you...Who? . Taking action: Emergency Action steps, 15. Checking an 111 or injured person. When seconds count. Cardiac emergencies. Injury prevention. Soft tissue injuries: Cuts Scrapes and bruises, 111. Injuries to muscles, bones and joints. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Staywell
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781584803003ISBN:1584803002
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"This is a bit of an odd book to review. No one I know is likely to pick this book up and read it for fun. But if you're in a first aid class, you'll be required to read it and it won't be fun.
What's new in first aid Two things worth knowing: first, the standard now is 30 chest compressions to 2 rescue breaths.
And "compound fractures" are now called "open fractures" because the latter is more descriptive of the actual injury, especially for the lay person. Apparently calling them "compound fractures" makes you old school.
And that's really the only good information you're going to get out of this review. It's not like you have any choices--if you need to get first-aid certified, you're pretty much stuck with this book or another Red Cross one like it.
So if you're frustrated, maybe the rest of this review/rant will strike a sympathetic chord for you...
Problem: the book is too busy These problems have plagued every Red Cross book I've ever read--and I've read a few, starting back in 1995 when I became a lifeguard in college.
The problem is, this book is set up to be browsed and flipped through--sort of like a magazine or a Web site. The images are really good, but there are so many callout boxes (or 'value-added content' to use a webby term), that it's really hard to plow through the book when you're trying to get it read for a class. And most of the readers of this book will be trying to get through it fast and absorb as much as possible. These are not browsing sorts of readers.
Logic and design Mainly it's the callout boxes (worst example is pages 166-170). Sometimes they're highlighting info that's less important than the text, sometimes they're highlight a key crucial point that you have to remember, and sometimes they're just giving a quicker summary of the longer description in the body text.
Sure, they're color-coded, but readers shouldn't have to learn a whole new code to read this kind of book.
Tame those callout boxes! Some textbooks use callout boxes very well. This one does not.
Sometimes you have to read past the boxes to find a stopping place in the main text. Sometimes there are so many boxes that they take over the entire page or reduce the main text to nothing.
Sometimes there really is no good stopping point, so you just have to abandon the main thread, read the callout box, then try to remember where you were back in the main text.
I think the boxes are supposed to make things more interesting by breaking up the text. But the Red Cross has always taken these too far, and it's just getting worse.
If I were designing this book The callout boxes need to start somewhere where it's easy to stop reading the main text. And they should never span more than one page. There should not be more than one box per page, and the box really should highlight a key point of the text.
More of of the boxes should be inline with the main text rather than tacked on to the sides.
Open ended-questions? In a skill-building book? Also, and this is a new thing since 1995, what's with all of the open-ended questions in this book? How are we supposed to learn the correct answers?
Bottom line: Please, Red Cross, make your books more like books and stop trying to make them like magazines."
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