Intermediate Emergency Care: Principles & Practices - Softcover

Bledsoe, Bryan E.; Porter, Robert S.; Cherry, Richard A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131136070 ISBN 13: 9780131136076

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

This book completely covers the 1999 U.S. DOT curriculum for intermediate-level emergency care, with in-depth coverage of principles and practice. The well-known and expert authors have produced a book that is comprehensive, with a clear writing style that allows an understanding of the “whys” and “hows” of EMT-I practice. Accompanied by a comprehensive support package (including Companion website), this book offers a complete treatment of the subject, covering such topics as basics for EMTs and an overview of the human systems, patient assessment, trauma emergencies, medical emergencies, and special considerations such as obstetrical emergencies, neonatal resuscitation, pediatrics, and geriatrics; as well as a comprehensive chapter on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. A valuable reference for professionals in the field of emergency care.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Intermediate Emergency Care: Principles & Practice is a comprehensive text that gives the Intermediate-level student a solid foundation of essential practical skills and provides the underlying principles upon which those skills are based. Correlated to the U.S. Department of Transportation's 1999 National Standard Curriculum for EMT Intermediate, this text provides the background content and skills coverage required for Intermediate-level education.

The text covers all seven modules of the curriculum:

Division 1: Preparatory Information (includes Airway)
Division 2: Patient Assessment/
Division 3: Trauma Emergencies
Division 4: Medical Emergencies
Division 5: Special Considerations (includes Assessment-Based Management)

Dr. Bryan E. Bledsoe, lead author of the Paramedic Care: Principles & Practice series and Essentials of Paramedic Care, along with co-authors Robert Porter and Richard Cherry, have created a student-friendly text that will serve as a valuable tool for Intermediate education for years to come. In developing this text to meet the curriculum, the goals were threefold:

• Comprehensive coverage. This text includes all material required for the U.S. DOT curriculum and, where appropriate, expanded information.
• Accuracy. The material reflects the best and latest in scientific and medical practice, written and reviewed by experts.
• Appropriate level. Concepts and terminology are clearly explained. Beginning at the level of the new student and progressing through the development of new and advanced concepts, this text will provide the student with a broad background of knowledge and a firm grasp of how to apply it to Intermediate-level emergency care.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131136070
• ISBN 13: 9780131136076
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1000