Emergency Medical Responder Essentials 3rd Edition Textbook, Resource, and Study Manual

Emergency Medical Responder Essentials, 3rd Edition, presents learners with unique and vital information in a concise, easily comprehensible, and well-organized book that truly meets the needs of today’s Emergency Medical Responder (EMR). Stressing the “essentials” enables this to be a multiuse book. It functions as an EMR textbook, resource, and study manual. Students are introduced to necessary cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains throughout the chapters. This book includes additional information that learners will need for assessment, interventions, and critical thinking in the field. Unique to this book is the concise presentation of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology to facilitate learning and a clear systematic approach to patient assessment and management.

Joseph Allen Grafft, MS, NREMT Joe Grafft’s interest and eventual career as an EMS provider and educator began with his father Charlie Grafft, a police chief and later county sheriff. Despite having little and living in a boxcar without running water the first 12 years of Joe’s life, his father modeled volunteerism. In 1959, at the age of 12, Joe began taking first aid and rescue classes from his father and became part of a junior rescue squad. Instilled in him was the importance of care and concern for the patient. His father’s words of wisdom still resound after all these years, “Have a reason for what you do and treat everyone with respect and dignity!” How true these words are today! Katherine Kuzma Grafft, BS, RN, OCN Kathy Grafft has been a health care professional since 1973, receiving a BS degree from the University of Minnesota. As a Registered Nurse, she has had extensive experience certified as a CCRN (Critical Care RN) in a Level One Trauma Center in the medical, cardiac, and surgical ICU’s. She served as Nursing Faculty at North Hennepin Community College where she instructed nursing students in simulation, skills lab, lectures and clinical experiences. She is a Retired OTR (Occupational Therapist Registered), with extensive experience working with adult rehab, cardiac rehab, public school special education and county infant and adult home visiting programs.