Prehospital care : pearls and pitfalls / editors, Peter T. Pons, Vincent J. Markovchick ; contributors, Jean Abbott [and seventy others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pons, Peter T., editor.

Abbott, Jean, contributor.

Markovchick, Vincent J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency medical services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (648 p.)

Place of Publication:

Shelton, Connecticut : People's Medical Publishing House, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Today's prehospital care provider will be confronted with a wide variety of medical and traumatic emergencies, will need to possess a strong foundation of medical knowledge, and will be using a large armamentarium of interventions and treatments. It is with this in mind that we have prepared this book. Prehospital Care--Pearls and Pitfalls, is a unique, stimulating, and easy-to-read way, provide practical information applicable to the prehospital setting and help the prehospital emergency care provider be prepared to manage the myriad of emergency and non- emergency situations that he or she will be called upon to assist. The past four decades have seen a remarkable evolution in the delivery of prehospital care. Where once the only therapy available for an out-of-hospital emergency medical situation was a ride to the hospital at a speed limited only by the vehicle you were in and the driving conditions at the time, now much of the interventional capability of the emergency department has been moved into an ambulance staffed with highly trained individuals who can bring to the patient the sophisticated medical care needed at the point of first contact with the health care delivery system.

Contents:

""Prehospital Care - Pearls & Pitfalls ""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Contributors ""; ""Section I: EMS-Overview, Design, and Operations ""; ""1: History of Emergency Medical Services ""; ""2: EMS System Design ""; ""3: The Prehospital Environment ""; ""4: Prehospital Communications ""; ""5: Destination Guidelines and Hospital Designation ""; ""6: Documentation ""; ""7: Medicolegal Issues ""; ""8: Emergency Vehicle Operation ""; ""9: Public and Media Relations ""; ""10: Ethics in EMS ""; ""Section II: Medical Direction ""; ""11: Medical Direction - Overview ""

""12: On-Line Medical Direction """"13: Off-Line Medical Direction ""; ""14: Continuous Quality Improvement ""; ""Section III: Personal Safety and Wellness ""; ""15: Well-Being of the EMS Provider ""; ""16: Scene Safety ""; ""17: Infectious Diseases Exposures ""; ""18: Critical Incident Stress ""; ""Section IV: Disasters, Mass Casualty Incidents, and Mass Gatherings ""; ""19: Incident Management ""; ""20: Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents ""; ""21: Small-Scale Multiple Casualty Incidents ""; ""22: Weapons of Mass Destruction - Chemical ""; ""23: Biological Terrorism ""

""24: Weapons of Mass Destruction - Radiologic """"25: Weapons of Mass Destruction - Explosives ""; ""26: Mass Gatherings ""; ""Section V: Clinical Care ""; ""27: Decision Making and Critical Interpretation of Vital Signs ""; ""28: The Prehospital Patient Assessment ""; ""29: Electrocardiogram Interpretation ""; ""30: Cardiac Dysrhythmias ""; ""31: Cardiac Arrest ""; ""32: Overview of Shock ""; ""33: Chest Pain ""; ""34: Acute Coronary Syndrome ""; ""35: Altered Mental Status ""; ""36: Acute Neurologic Emergencies ""; ""37: Hypertensive Emergencies ""; ""38: Seizures ""; ""39: Fever ""

""40: Abdominal Pain """"41: Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage ""; ""42: Vomiting and Diarrhea ""; ""43: Dyspnea ""; ""44: Extremity Pain and Trauma ""; ""45: Overdose and Poisoning ""; ""46: Hypothermia and Frostbite ""; ""47: Heat Illness ""; ""48: Altitude Illness ""; ""49: Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies ""; ""50: Allergy and Anaphylaxis ""; ""51: Diabetic Emergencies ""; ""52: Psychiatric and Behavioral Emergencies ""; ""53: Management of the Violent Patient ""; ""54: General Trauma Principles ""; ""55: Head Trauma ""; ""56: Spinal Cord Injuries ""; ""57: Neck Trauma ""

""58: Thoracic Trauma """"59: Abdominal Trauma ""; ""60: Pelvic Trauma ""; ""61: Interpersonal Violence ""; ""62: Thermal Burns ""; ""Section VI: Pediatrics ""; ""63: Assessment of the Pediatric Patient ""; ""64: Field Approach to Infants and Children ""; ""65: Seizures in Children ""; ""66: Respiratory Distress in Infants and Children ""; ""67: Pediatric Trauma ""; ""68: Child Abuse and Nonaccidental Trauma ""; ""Section VII: Special Situations ""; ""69: Water Emergencies ""; ""70: Decompression Illnesses ""; ""71: Wilderness Emergency Medical Services ""; ""72: Lightning ""

""73: Bites, Stings, and Envenomations ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 16, 2014).

ISBN:

1-60795-259-9

OCLC:

854584311