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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Limmer, Daniel
Other Authors: Le Baudour, Chris
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, [2005]
Subjects:
Emergency medicine.
First aid in illness and injury.
Rescue work.
Emergency medical personnel.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to emergency medical care
  • The well-being of the EMT-basic
  • Medical/legal and ethical issues
  • The human body
  • Lifting and moving patients
  • Airway management
  • Scene size-up
  • The initial assessment
  • Vital signs and sample history
  • Assessment of the trauma patient
  • Assessment of the medical patient
  • Ongoing assessment
  • Communications
  • Documentation
  • General pharmacology
  • Respiratory emergencies
  • Cardiac emergencies
  • Acute abdominal emergencies
  • Diabetic emergencies and altered mental status
  • Allergic reactions
  • Poisoning and overdose emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies
  • Behavioral emergencies
  • Obstetric and gynecological emergencies
  • Putting it all together for the medical patient
  • Bleeding and shock
  • Soft-tissue injuries
  • Musculoskeletal injuries
  • Injuries to the head and spine
  • Putting it all together for the trauma patient
  • Infants and children
  • Geriatric emergencies
  • Ambulance operations
  • Gaining access and rescue operations
  • Special operations
  • EMS response to terrorism
  • Advanced airway management.