This text offers information on emergency care, providing both the knowledge and skills that an emergency medical technician-paramedic (EMT-P) and an emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I) need for performance of prehospital advanced life support. An ideal resource for preparing for State and National Registry Examinations. This text deals appropriately with stress management and geriatric and paediatric topics, and the first comprehensive text to cover trauma in depth. The book includes chapters on cardiovascular emergencies and pharmacology, eliminating the need for students to buy additional texts on these subjects. Many skills are illustrated step by step in 20 display extracts, with a three-column format which breaks each step into "what", "how" and "why".
This text offers information on emergency care, providing both the knowledge and skills that an emergency medical technician-paramedic (EMT-P) and an emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I) need for performance of prehospital advanced life support. An ideal resource for preparing for State and National Registry Examinations. This text deals appropriately with stress management and geriatric and paediatric topics, and the first comprehensive text to cover trauma in depth. The book includes chapters on cardiovascular emergencies and pharmacology, eliminating the need for students to buy additional texts on these subjects. Many skills are illustrated step by step in 20 display extracts, with a three-column format which breaks each step into "what", "how" and "why".
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
574 illustrations, 131 tables
Maße
Höhe: 279 mm
Breite: 216 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-397-54592-6 (9780397545926)
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Autor*in
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, USA
Hennepin County Community Health Department, Minneapolis, USA
Part 1 The paramedic and the prehospital environment: roles and responsibilities; the emergency medical services system; medical and legal considerations; emergency medical services communications; rescue management; disaster management; stress management. Part 2 Foundations of paramedic practice: medical terminology and human systems; patient assessment; airway management and ventilation; pathophysiology of shock and fluid management; general pharmacology. Part 3 Trauma: kinematics of trauma; soft tissue and burn injuries; injuries to the head, neck and spine; thoracic injuries; abdominal trauma; musculoskeletal injuries. Part 4 Medical Emergencies: respiratory emergencies; cardiovascualr emergencies; endocrine emergencies; neurological emergencies; abdominal, urinary and reproductive emergencies; allergic and anaphylactic reactions; toxicology and drug and alcohol abuse; infectious diseases; environmental emergencies and hazardous materials. Part 5 Caring for special groups: geriatric emergencies; paediatric emergencies; gynaecologic, obstetric and newborn emergencies; behavioural, crisis and psychiatric emergencies. Appendices: practice testing criteria for the EMT-paramedic - National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians; performance sheets for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and foreign body airway obstruction management - American Heart Association; trauma scores; emergency drugs; common home medications.
