Prehospital emergency care.
"Prehospital Emergency Care , Tenth Edition, meets the National EMS Education Standards and is the most complete resource for EMT-B training. This best-selling, student-friendly book contains clear, step-by-step explanations with comprehensive, stimulating, and challenging material that prepare...
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Boston :
Pearson,
[2014]
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| Edition: | 10th edition / |
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Table of Contents:
- Preparatory/ public health
- Emergency medical care systems, research and public health
- Workforce safety and wellness of EMT
- Medical, legal and ethical issues
- Documentation
- Communication
- Lifting and moving patients
- Anatomy and physiology/medical terminology
- Pathophysiology
- Life span development
- Airway management, respiration and artificial ventilation
- Airway management, artificial ventilation and oxygenation
- Assessment
- Baseline vital signs, monitoring devices and history taking
- Scene size-up
- Patient assessment
- Pharmacology-- Pharmacology and medication administration
- Shock and resuscitation
- Medicine
- Respiratory emergencies
- Cardiovascular emergencies
- Altered mental status, stroke and headache
- Seizures and syncope
- Acute diabetic emergencies
- Anaphylactic reactions
- Toxicologic emergencies
- Abdominal, hematologic, gynecologic, genitourinary and renal emergencies
- Environmental emergencies
- Submersion incidents: drowning and diving emergencies
- Trauma
- Trauma over view: the trauma patient and the trauma system
- Bleeding and soft tissue trauma
- Burns
- Musculoskeletal trauma and nontraumatic fractures
- Head trauma
- Spinal column and spinal cord trauma
- Eye, face and neck trauma
- Chest trauma
- Abdominal and genitourinary trauma
- Multisystem trauma and trauma in special patient populations
- Special patient populations
- Obstetrics and care of the newborn
- Pediatrics
- Geriatrics
- Patients with special challenges
- The combat veteran
- EMS operations
- Ambulance operations and air medical response
- Gaining access and patient extraction
- Hazardous materials
- Multiple-casualty incidents and incident management
- EMS response to terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction
- ALS-Assist skills
- Advanced airway management
- Agricultural and industrial emergencies.