Emergency Care

Description

SECTION 1: FOUNDATIONS

1. Introduction to Emergency Medical Care
2. Well-Being of the EMT
3. Lifting and Moving Patients
4. Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues
5. Medical Terminology
6. Anatomy and Physiology
7. Principles of Pathophysiology
8. Life Span Development

SECTION 2: AIRWAY MANAGEMENT, RESPIRATION, AND ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION

1. Airway Management
2. Respiration and Artificial Ventilation

SECTION 3: PATIENT ASSESSMENT

1. Scene Size-Up
2. Primary Assessment
3. Vital Signs and Monitoring Devices
4. Principles of Assessment
5. Secondary Assessment
6. Reassessment
7. Communication and Documentation

SECTION 4: MEDICAL EMERGENCIES

1. General Pharmacology
2. Respiratory Emergencies
3. Cardiac Emergencies
4. Resuscitation
5. Diabetic Emergencies and Altered Mental Status
6. Allergic Reaction
7. Infectious Diseases and Sepsis
8. Poisoning and Overdose Emergencies
9. Abdominal Emergencies
10. Behavioral and Psychiatric Emergencies and Suicide
11. Hematologic and Renal Emergencies

SECTION 5: TRAUMA EMERGENCIES

1. Bleeding and Shock
2. Soft-Tissue Trauma
3. Chest and Abdominal Trauma
4. Musculoskeletal Trauma
5. Trauma to the Head, Neck, and Spine
6. Multisystem Trauma
7. Environmental Emergencies

SECTION 6: SPECIAL POPULATIONS

1. Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies
2. Emergencies for Patients with Special Challenges

SECTION 7: OPERATIONS

1. EMS Operations
2. Hazardous Materials, Multiple-Casualty Incidents, and Incident Management
3. Highway Safety and Vehicle Extrication
4. EMS Response to Terrorism

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Foster an understanding of how to serve ALL patients in real-life situations

• EXPANDED – Professional photos supply a combination of realistic and real-life emergency images to prepare students for what they will see in the field.
• NEW –  Pediatric and Geriatric assessment, care and treatment is integrated throughout the text. This significant organizational change allows for each chapter to include patient scenarios that cover a range of ages, giving students continuous practice in considering age as simply a factor in their overall information gathering and assessment.
• NEW – The Patient Care feature that appears in clinical chapters has been fine-tuned to address Principles of Care FIRST, followed by actions that the EMT may need to employ in caring for the patient. With this important development change, actions are not numbered because there is no one correct sequence for patient care. The EMT must continually base decisions and priority actions on the evolving condition of the patient.
• UPDATED – The Secondary Assessment chapter was reworked into three more focused chapters that cover specific aspects of the EMT’s role and care of patients.
• Street Scenes place book knowledge within the context of real-life calls. Questions within this feature prompt readers to test their knowledge using realistic situations.
• NEW – The Infectious Diseases and Sepsis chapter (Chapter 24) gives an overview of common infectious diseases that EMTs may encounter, describes the conditions that lead to sepsis, and provides signs that sepsis may be occurring.
• UPDATED and EXPANDED – The Operations section of the book (Section 7) includes new triage procedures and updated guidelines for handling incident scenes.

Foster critical-thinking and decision-making skills

• Chapter Review sections include a summary of key points, key terms and definitions, review questions, critical-thinking exercises that ask students to apply knowledge, case studies, and more.
• Decision Points call out key decisions that are made during assessment and care of a patient.
• Critical Decision-Making exercises appear throughout the text and help students learn how to make patient-care decisions while at the scene.

Understand and go beyond the standards

• UPDATED – All chapters throughout the text conform to the most current American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
• Core Concepts list the key points addressed in each chapter to help students anticipate chapter content, and guide their studies. Chapter-opening Objectives are based on the National EMS Education Standards.
• DOT Objectives are listed and follow the DOT numbering system. Each chapter lists the US DOT objectives along with page references that make it easy to see where the objectives are covered.
• FYI sections broaden students’ understanding of individual topics and provide material that goes beyond the DOT objectives.

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Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what’s new in this edition.

Foster an understanding of how to serve ALL patients in real-life situations

• Professional photos supply a combination of realistic and real-life emergency images to prepare students for what they will see in the field.
• Pediatric and Geriatric assessment, care and treatment is integrated throughout the text. This significant organizational change allows for each chapter to include patient scenarios that cover a range of ages, giving students continuous practice in considering age as simply a factor in their overall information gathering and assessment.
• The Patient Care feature that appears in clinical chapters has been fine-tuned to address Principles of Care FIRST, followed by actions that the EMT may need to employ in caring for the patient. With this important development change, actions are not numbered because there is no one correct sequence for patient care. The EMT must continually base decisions and priority actions on the evolving condition of the patient.
• The Secondary Assessment chapter was reworked into three more focused chapters that cover specific aspects of the EMT’s role and care of patients.
• The Infectious Diseases and Sepsis chapter (Chapter 24) gives an overview of common infectious diseases that EMTs may encounter, describes the conditions that lead to sepsis, and provides signs that sepsis may be occurring.
• The Operations section of the book (Section 7) includes new triage procedures and updated guidelines for handling incident scenes.

Understand and go beyond the standards

• All chapters throughout the text conform to the most current American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.

Daniel Limmer began working in EMS in 1978. He became an EMT in 1980 and a paramedic in 1981. Currently, he is a lecturer at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, and an adjunct faculty member at Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor, Maine. He especially enjoys teaching patient assessment and believes critical thinking and decision-making skills are the key to successful clinical practice of EMS. In addition to his EMS experience, was a dispatcher and police officer in upstate New York.
Daniel works part time as a freelance photojournalist and is working on a documentary project photographing EMS people and agencies throughout the United States.
Daniel lives in Maine with his wife, Stephanie, and daughters Sarah and Margo. He is a Jimmy Buffett fan (Parrothead) who attends at least one concert each year.
Michael F. O’Keefe is an EMT Provider Level Leader for National EMS Education Standards. He served as an expert writer for 1994 revision of EMT-Basic curriculum. He has been an EMS volunteer since college in 1976. He is a member of the development group for the National EMS Education Agenda for the Future: A Systems Approach and The National EMS Scope of Practice Model. Michael has a special interest in EMS research, and earned a master’s degree in biostatistics. He is a past chairperson of the National Council of State EMS Training Coordinators. Michael’s interests include science fiction, travel, foreign languages, and stained glass.
Edward T. Dickinson is the medical director of the Malvern, Berwyn, and Radnor Fire Companies in Pennsylvania. He was first certified as an EMT in 1979 in upstate New York and has been continuously certified as a National Registry Paramedic since 1983. In 1985, was the first volunteer firefighter to receive the top award from Firehouse Magazine for heroism for the rescue of two elderly women trapped in a house fire.
Edward has a full-time academic emergency medicine practice at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia where he also serves as the Medical Director for PENNStar Flight. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services. He has served as medical editor for numerous Brady EMT and First Responder texts.
Edward lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he is married to Debbie and has two sons, Steve and Alex.