Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive is a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award for Best Health/Safety Book, 2010. The Mom's Choice Awards honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of the panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, Ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, Creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project; Jodee Blanco, New York Times Best-Selling Author; LeAnn Thieman, Motivational speaker and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books; and Tara Paterson, Certified Parent Coach, and founder of the Mom's Choice Awards. Parents and educators look for the Mom s Choice Awards seal in selecting quality materials and products for children and families. This book/product has been honored by this distinguished award.
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Womans Day .com
Survive a Stint in the Hospital
These three tips will help you avoid a medical mixup
By Abigail L. Cuffey Posted October 02, 2009 from Woman's Day; November 3, 2009
You've heard the horror stories about medication mixups and exposure to serious infections. Martine Ehrenclou, author of Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive, tells you how not to become one of them.
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Family Circle Magazine, April 17, 2009
"To be on the safe side, make sure you and those you care about follow the safety tips from Martine Ehrenclou's Critical Conditions."
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"What are the chances you'll never have to be there for someone in the hospital? Zero. At some point you'll be called into life-and-death matters. Now, Martine Ehrenclou helps us all with Critical Conditions... Her concise guide includes a workbook to apply the rules to your own situation. It's a godsend!"
— Los Angeles Times Magazine, Annie Gilbar, Editor in Chief
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"Still more wise words from medical personnel pepper the pages of Critical Conditions."
— Publisher's Weekly, August 4th,
Health Front and Center by Natalie Danford.
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"Despite our best efforts, at some point, nearly everyone has to make a visit to the hospital. Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive (Lemon Grove Press) by Martine Ehrenclou is an important book for family members of anyone who is in the hospital or who is seriously ill. She interviewed doctors, nurses, social workers, and families, and she distills the information she gained into calming, practical advice. "
— Whitney Hallberg,
FOREWORD Magazine,
Keeping the Doctor at Bay,
Natural Health and Protection From Harm
... more endorsements
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-Winner of the Book of the Year 2009 (Bronze), ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards.
-Winner of the Best Health Book of 2009, Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Awards
-Winner of How-To Book of the Year 2009, San Francisco Book Festival
-Winner of the Best Health Book of 2008, The Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards
-Winner of the Best Health Book of 2008, Books&Authors.net
-Winner of the Best How-To Book of 2008, DIY Book Festival Awards
-Finalist Health Book of the Year 2009, National Indie Excellence Awards
-Finalist in 2009 Health/Wellness category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards
-Honorable Mention, Self-help Book of the Year, 2009, Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award
Check out Critical Conditions Amazon rank!!!
It's the best it's ever been Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,252 in Books
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Critical Conditions
The Essential Hospital Guide
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Martine Ehrenclou
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Summary
Hospital patient care is becoming hazardous to the patient's health. There must be someone---a family member---to act as sentinel to prevent medical errors. The large number of preventable deaths in hospitals nationwide has been highly publicized. Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide To Get Your Loved One Out Alive by Martine Ehrenclou, MA, is a new book about how to be a proactive advocate for your hospitalized loved one in order to prevent medical error, medication mistakes, fatal falls and the spread of hospital-acquired infectious diseases.
Critical Conditions is a step-by-step guide based on over 150 interviews with registered nurses, physicians and hospital staff, Ms. Ehrenclou's own experiences with hospitalized family members and hundreds of hours of research. It is a book for family members written by a family member who has been there.
You will learn how to:
- Prevent deadly medical errors, medication mistakes, infectious diseases.
- Reach doctors when you need them every time.
- Navigate and manage the hospital system with confidence.
- Interact with doctors and nurses effectively.
- Maximize care for the patient.
- Comfort the patient.
- What to do if you live out of town.
- Create a Family Advocate Team.
About the Author
Martine is an author and patient advocate. She has had several of her articles on hospital patient safety published in national magazines and newspapers and has been interviewed on numerous nationally syndicated radio shows. Martine is a monthly contributor to ParentGiving.com. She currently lectures on the topic of patient advocacy at hospitals and "How to Survive a Hospital Stay" at universities, organizations and bookstores. Martine has also had stories published in bestselling books, has written for newspapers and magazines, and with past businesses has appeared on national TV talk and news shows (ABC World News Tonight, Phil Donahue, Jenny Jones and more) in national magazines (Time, Inc., The Economist, and more) and in national newspapers (Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and more.)
She received her master’s degree with honors in psychology from Pepperdine University, Los Angeles.
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