Prehospital Emergency Pharmacology - Hardcover

BLEDSOE; Bledsoe, Bryan; Clayden, Dwayne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0135138221 ISBN 13: 9780135138229

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

Prehospital Emergency Pharmacology, Seventh Edition is a comprehensive guide to the most common medications and fluids used by paramedics and other emergency medical service (EMS) professionals in prehospital emergency care. A cornerstone of EMS education for more than 25 years, it has been extensively revised in this edition to reflect current trends in emergency care, especially the growing requirement for evidence-based practice. A valuable aid to both practicing paramedics and paramedic students, it presents care procedures that represent accepted practices throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as up-to-date medication dosages according with nationally accepted standards, including those of the AMA, AHA, and PDR.

About this title

About the Author:

Bledsoe is an emergency physician with special interest in prehospital care.

Dwayne E. Clayden, EMT-P, M.E.M. Dwayne Clayden is the Assistant to the Medical Director for The City of Calgary Emergency Medical Services and responsible for Prehospital Research, Quality Improvement, in-house Paramedic Program, and the Tactical EMS Team. Previously Dwayne was the Emergency Medical Service Chief for the City of Airdrie Emergency Services in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada from June 1996 to October 2001. Bryan E. Bledsoe, D.O., F.A.C.E.P., EMT-P Dr. Bryan Bledsoe is an emergency physician with a special interest in prehospital care. He is board certified in emergency medicine and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0135138221
• ISBN 13: 9780135138229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 568