
EMS Field Guide ALS Version
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
21st Edition
Published on 29. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-284-23577-7 (ISBN)
Description
The original EMS field guide has grown into the most used reference guide in EMS history, the one that EMS Magazine calls " the original and still the best." The Twenty-First Edition of the EMS Field Guide, ALS Version makes it easy for paramedics, nurses, and physicians to look up their patients' medications, check drug doses, quickly interpret 12-Lead ECGs, and much more!
New in the 21st edition:
- Revised and updated content to reflect the most current guidelines and medication dosage recommendations
- More detailed ECG analyses illustrations
- New content on I-gel supraglottic airway
- Enhanced information on noninvasive ventilation
- Updated content on pediatric medications to reflect best practice recommendations
- Completely revised Emergency Medications chapter to include dozens of new medications and pediatric dosing
- New content on Ebola, mpox, and COVID-19
- Completely revised trauma triage algorithm to reflect 2022 recommendations
- Completely revised Poisoning chapter, adding GHB, beta-blocker overdose, calcium channel blocker overdose, Jimson weed, khat, LSD, and mushrooms
- Completely revised Prescription Drugs chapter to reflect hundreds of new brand-name and generic drugs
Like all of our informed field guides, this is a resource you'll use in class and take with you throughout your career in the field. All informed professional field guides are 3x5", fit easily in your pocket, have colour-coded tabs, and are water-resistant, alcohol-fast, and durable.
Can't find the digital product you are looking for? Please contact us directly at jbl@mare-nostrum.co.uk to purchase eBooks and Instructor Resources. We'd be happy to help.
New in the 21st edition:
- Revised and updated content to reflect the most current guidelines and medication dosage recommendations
- More detailed ECG analyses illustrations
- New content on I-gel supraglottic airway
- Enhanced information on noninvasive ventilation
- Updated content on pediatric medications to reflect best practice recommendations
- Completely revised Emergency Medications chapter to include dozens of new medications and pediatric dosing
- New content on Ebola, mpox, and COVID-19
- Completely revised trauma triage algorithm to reflect 2022 recommendations
- Completely revised Poisoning chapter, adding GHB, beta-blocker overdose, calcium channel blocker overdose, Jimson weed, khat, LSD, and mushrooms
- Completely revised Prescription Drugs chapter to reflect hundreds of new brand-name and generic drugs
Like all of our informed field guides, this is a resource you'll use in class and take with you throughout your career in the field. All informed professional field guides are 3x5", fit easily in your pocket, have colour-coded tabs, and are water-resistant, alcohol-fast, and durable.
Can't find the digital product you are looking for? Please contact us directly at jbl@mare-nostrum.co.uk to purchase eBooks and Instructor Resources. We'd be happy to help.
More details
Edition
21st edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sudbury
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 147 mm
Width: 75 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
194 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-284-23577-7 (9781284235777)
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Informed | Paula Derr | Jon Tardiff
EMS Field Guide, ALS Version
Book
08/2017
20th Edition
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
€44.75
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Persons
Mike McEvoy, PhD, REMT-P, RN, CCRN is the EMS Coordinator for Saratoga County (NY) and the EMS Director on the Board of the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs. Formerly a forensic psychologist, he is a clinical specialist in Cardiac Surgery and teaches Critical Care Medicine at Albany Medical College where he also co-chairs the Resuscitation Committee and serves on the Formulary Committee. Mr. McEvoy is a paramedic for Clifton Park-Halfmoon Ambulance, chief medical officer for West Crescent Fire Department, and past chair and current member of the New York State EMS Council. He is the Fire-EMS technical editor for Fire Engineering magazine and has authored numerous publications. Mr. McEvoy is a popular speaker at fire, EMS, and medical conferences throughout North America.