Based on the new National EMS Education Standards, the tenth edition of this textbook offers complete coverage of every competency statement in a concise format that ensures student comprehension and encourages critical thinking. It incorporates evidenced-based medical concepts to ensure students are taught assessment and treatment modalities that will help patients in the field. The experienced author team and AAOS medical editors have transformed...

Product Description: Dr. Caroline's work transformed EMS and the entire paramedic field. She created the first national standard curriculum for paramedic training in the United States. She also wrote the first paramedic textbook: Emergency Care in the Streets. Dynamic features found in the Sixth Edition: Progressive case studies that lead the student through an emergency call from beginning to end. Practical, in-the-field advice. Notes from Nancy-words...

"Responding to Psychological Emergencies : A Field Guide is a quick reference source for rapid intervention and mitigation of psychologically based emergencies. The guide provides a user-friendly, cross referenced, pragmatic reference guide to a variety of psychological maladies that are encountered by those delivering services in emergency situations." "The field guide furnishes you with the tools and information that enhance service delivery through...

"This comprehensive and dynamic guide to patient assessment gives you the foundation needed to master these critical skills. Through detailed descriptions of physical examinations and history-taking methods, web activities, and case scenarios that tie all of the concepts together, Principles of Patient Assessment in EMS gives you the tools and hands-on experience to develop your patient assessment skills. The first chapter presents an overview of...

"The most complete resource for EMT-B training, this best-selling, reader-friendly book contains clear, step-by-step explanations with comprehensive, stimulating, and challenging material that prepares and equips users for real on-the-job situations. With its use of the case study model, state-of-the-art scans, algorithms, protocols, and the inclusion of areas above and beyond the DOT protocols, this new, 9th edition of Prehospital Emergency Care...