Prehospital Emergency Care

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ISBN-13: 9780835957052
ISBN-10: 0835957055
Publisher: PRENTICE HALL HEALTH
Format: Paperback
Pub Date: 01/1999
Edition Number: 6

Synopsis

The sixth edition of this best-selling, reader-friendly book contains clear, step-by-step explanations with understandable material that is comprehensive, stimulating, and challenging enough to prepare and equip practitioners for real-life situations. Contains twenty-six new assessment flowcharts illustrating care steps for breathing difficulty, cardiac compromise, diabetic emergencies, bleeding and shock, burns, head injuries, newborn resuscitation, and many more. Assessment summaries, protocols, and algorithms summarize care for, but not limited to cardiac arrest, stroke, allergic reaction, near-drowning, abdominal injuries, and pediatric emergencies. For serious EMT-B's who want to go above and beyond the D.O.T. requirements.

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Module I. Preparatory.

1. Introduction to Emergency Medical Care.
2. The Well-Being of the EMT-Basic.
3. Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues.
4. The Human Body.
5. Baseline Vital Signs and History Taking.
6. Preparing to Lift and Move Patients.

Module II. Airway.

7. Airway Management, Ventilation, and Oxygen Therapy.

Module III. Patient Assessment.

8. Scene Size-Up.
9. Patient Assessment.
10. Assessment of Geriatric Patients.
11. Communication.
12. Documentation.

Module IV. Medical, Behavioral, and Obstetrics/Gynecology.

13. General Pharmacology.
14. Respiratory Emergencies.
15. Cardiac Emergencies.
16. Automated External Defibrillation.
17 Altered Mental Status-Diabetic Emergencies.
18. Altered Speech, Sensory, or Motor Function: Stroke Emergency.
19. Seizures and Syncope.
20. Allergic Reaction.
21. Poisoning Emergencies.
22. Drug and Alcohol Emergencies.
23. Acute Abdominal Pain.
24. Environmental Emergencies.
25. Drowning, Near-Drowning, and Diving Emergencies.
26. Behavioral Emergencies.
27. Obstetric and Gynecological Emergencies.

Module V. Trauma.

28. Mechanisms of Injury: Kinetics of Trauma.
29. Bleeding and Shock.
30. Soft Tissue Injuries.
31. Burn Emergencies.
32. Musculoskeletal Injuries.
33. Injuries to the Head.
34. Injuries to the Spine.
35. Eye, Face, and Neck Injuries.
36. Chest, Abdomen, and Genitalia Injuries.
37. Agricultural and Industrial Emergencies.

Module VI. Infants and Children.

38. Infants and Children.

Module VII. Operations.

39. Moving Patients.
40. Ambulance Operations.
41. Gaining Access and Extrication.
42. Hazardous Materials Emergencies.
43. Multiple-Casualty Incidents.

Module VIII. Advanced Airway Elective.

44. Advanced Airway Management.
Appendix 1. Basic Life Support.
Appendix 2. National Registry Skill Sheets.
Glossary.
Index.