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Provides consumer health information for teens about medical emergencies, traumatic injuries, and disaster preparedness.

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Publié par	Infobase Publishing
Date de parution	01 août 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780780817401
Langue	English

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Teen Health Series
Accident and Safety Information for Teens, Second Edition

Teen Health Series

Accident and Safety Information for Teens, Second Edition

Health Tips about Medical Emergencies, Traumatic Injuries, and Emergency Preparedness

Including Facts about Motor Vehicle Accidents, Burns, Poisoning, Firearms, Natural Disasters, National Security Threats, and More

Bibliographic Note
Because this page cannot legibly accommodate all the copyright notices, the Bibliographic Note portion of the Preface constitutes an extension of the copyright notice.

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OMNIGRAPHICS
Angela L. Williams, Managing Editor
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Copyright © 2019 Omnigraphics
ISBN 978-0-7808-1739-5
E-ISBN 978-0-7808-1740-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019942447
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Table of Contents
Preface
Part One: Unintentional Injury and Violence: Overview
Chapter 1—Teen Injury and Death: The Plagues of Accident and Violence
Chapter 2—Statistics for Fatal and Nonfatal Injury
Chapter 3—Youth Violence and Its Consequences
Chapter 4—This Is Your Brain on Emergencies
Chapter 5—What You Should Know about
Chapter 6—First Aid Basics
Chapter 7—Injury-Related Emergency Department Visits: A Report
Chapter 8—Coping with a Traumatic Experience
Part Two: Medical Emergencies and Traumatic Injuries
Chapter 9—Animal Bites
Chapter 10—Stings and Biting Insects
Chapter 11—Bleeding
Chapter 12—Burns
Chapter 13—Broken Bones and Growth-Plate Injuries
Chapter 14—Spinal Cord Injuries
Chapter 15—Concussions
Chapter 16—Traumatic Brain Injury
Chapter 17—Choking
Chapter 18—Alcohol Overdose
Chapter 19—Opioid Overdose
Part Three: Motor Vehicle Safety
Chapter 20—Teen Drivers: The Facts
Chapter 21—The Keys to Defensive Driving
Chapter 22—Graduated Driver Licensing Program
Chapter 23—Safety Belts and Teens
Chapter 24—What You Need to Know about Airbags
Chapter 25—Tire Safety
Chapter 26—Headlights and Safer Night Driving
Chapter 27—Bad-Weather Driving Tips
Chapter 28—Drowsy Driving
Chapter 29—Distracted Driving
Chapter 30—Impaired Driving
Chapter 31—Drugged Driving
Chapter 32—Aggressive Driving
Chapter 33—Speeding
Chapter 34—What to Do after a Car Accident
Chapter 35—Motorcycle Safety
Chapter 36—Pedestrian Safety
Part Four: Safety at Home, School, and Work
Chapter 37—How to Be Safety Savvy
Chapter 38—Gun Safety
Chapter 39—School and School Bus Safety
Chapter 40—Fire Safety and Escape Planning
Chapter 41—About Fire Extinguishers
Chapter 42—The Dangers of Carbon Monoxide
Chapter 43—Poison Prevention Tips
Chapter 44—Electrical and Power Outage Safety
Chapter 45—Gardening Health and Safety Tips
Chapter 46—What Working Teens Need to Know about Safety
Part Five: Outdoor and Recreation Safety
Chapter 47—Sports and Exercise Safety
Chapter 48—Safe Bicycling
Chapter 49—Water Sports Safety
Chapter 50—All-Terrain Vehicles
Chapter 51—Snowmobile Safety
Chapter 52—Skating, Skateboarding, and Snow Skiing
Part Six: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 53—Making a Disaster Plan
Chapter 54—Building a Disaster Kit
Chapter 55—Sheltering in Place: What It Means
Chapter 56—Things to Know about Tornados, Hurricanes, and Floods
Chapter 57—Thunderstorms and Lightning
Chapter 58—Be Prepared for Winter Storms
Chapter 59—Chemical Emergencies
Chapter 60—National Security Emergencies
Chapter 61—Terrorism: Preparing for the Unexpected
Chapter 62—Bioterrorism
Part Seven: If You Need More Information
Chapter 63—Resources for Information about First Aid and Medical Emergencies
Chapter 64—Resources for More Information about Disaster Preparedness
Index
Preface
About This Book
According to statistics compiled by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA), accidents are the leading cause of death among children and youth between the ages of 0 to 19 years. In 2016, 6.5 percent of the U.S. population represents young people of the age group 15 to 19. About 2,433 teens of age group 16 to 19 were killed as the result of motor vehicle injury, or teens between age group 16 to 19 died every day through motorcycle crashes and more than 100 were injured. In the age group 0 to 19 years, about 12,000 people died from unintentional injuries, such as traffic accidents, nontraffic-related motor vehicle accidents, poisonings, drownings, falls, exposures to fire and smoke, and violence.
Accident and Safety Information for Teens, Second Edition provides adolescent readers with facts about what to do when accidents happen: when to call 911, what first aid steps can be taken, what to expect in the emergency department or hospital, and how to cope with the aftereffects of a traumatic experience. It describes serious injuries and medical emergencies, including major bleeding, burns, spinal cord injuries, brain injury, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning. The book also provides information about motor vehicle safety; safety at home, school, and work; and outdoor and recreation-related safety. A separate section discusses emergency and disaster preparedness, including how to make a disaster plan, how to prepare for natural disasters, what steps to take to prepare for national security emergencies, about how people can protect themselves from terrorism of all types. The book concludes with directories of resources for additional help and information.
How to Use This Book
This book is divided into parts and chapters. Parts focus on broad areas of interest; chapters are devoted to single topics within a part.
Part One: Unintentional Injury and Violence: Overview discusses teen death and injury due to violence and accidents, gives statistical information about fatal and nonfatal injuries, describes your brain on an emergency and how to cope up with traumatic experience, gives basic information on first aid and what people should know about 911, and concludes with a report on injury-related emergency department visits.
Part Two: Medical Emergencies and Traumatic Injuries explains complications, prevention, and treatment for animal bites, stings, and insect bites, bleeding, and burns. This part deals with the risk factors, prevention, and diagnosis of fractures and traumatic brain injury and also contains information about spinal cord injury. It concludes with the risk factors, signs, and symptoms of alcohol and opioid overdose.
Part Three: Motor Vehicle Safety describes the leading cause of death for U.S. teens and traffic safety. It describes the development of safe driving skills, the proper use of safety belts and airbags, appropriate care for tires and headlights, and the special challenges related to driving during inclement weather. Problems associated with driving in, drowsy, drunk, and drugged states, speeding, and aggressive driving are discussed, along with what one should do after a car accident. The part concludes with chapters that address the special concerns of motorcyclists and pedestrians.
Part Four: Safety at Home, School, and Work discusses the safety that teens should be aware of at home, school, and workplace. The chapters explain fire, gardening, electrical and power outage safety, and the dangers of carbon monoxide. The part concludes with the safety measures that a working teen should know.
Part Five: Outdoor and Recreation Safety describes sports injury prevention tips and offers suggestions for avoiding dangers and being safe while bicycling, swimming, boating, driving all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiling, skating, skateboarding, skiing, and snowboarding.
Part Six: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness describes the process of planning ahead for natural disasters and national security emergencies. It offers information about how to build a kit for disaster management and what to expect in the event of a tornado, hurricane, flood, winter storm, thunderstorm, lightning, or other incidents associated with the untamed aspects of nature. It also explains steps that can be taken to be ready to respond to human-made disasters, such as chemical accidents and acts of terrorism and bioterrorism.
Part Seven: If You Need More Information includes directories of resources for additional facts about first aid, medical emergencies, and disaster preparedness.
Bibliographic Note
This volume contains documents and excerpts from publications issued by the following U.S. government agencies: Agricultural Research Service (ARS); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD); Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA); National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS); National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)