For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Prehospital Emergency Medicine Care Secrets is an all-new addition to this popular series, offering practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This new resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective.
Covers the full range of essential topics including disaster and multiple casualty incidents, psychiatric emergencies, and prehospital skills and procedures for in-training or practicing professionals.
Fully revised and updated, including protocols and guidelines that are continuously evolving and that increasingly dictate best practices.
Includes chapters on public health and EMS, infectious disease emergencies/sepsis, telemedicine and emerging telecommunications, transport of the highly infectious patient, mass casualty evacuation and patient movement, biological and chemical terrorism, community disaster preparedness, and airway management, oxygenation, and ventilation.
Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.
Bulleted lists, mnemonics, practical tips from global leaders in the field – all providing a concise overview of important board-relevant content.
Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime.
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Top 100 Secrets 1 History of Emergency Medical Services 2 Destination Guidelines and Hospital Designation 3 Emergency Vehicle Operation, EMS System Design, and Prehospital Communications 4 Media and Public Relations 5 Medical direction and Medicolegal Issues 6 Public Health and EMS 7 Quality Improvement and Research in EMS 8 Scene safety 9 Critical incident stress and Occupational Health Issues in EMS 10 Prehospital Physical Assessment and Critical Interpretation of Vital Signs 11 Cardiac Arrest, Including ECMO 12 Hypotension and Shock 13 Altered Mental Status 14 Arrhythmias and Electrocardiogram Interpretation 15 Cardiac Emergencies--Chest Pain, STEMI, ACS, CHF 16 Cardiac Device Emergencies 17 Gastrointestinal Emergencies 18 Diabetic Emergencies 19 Sepsis 20 Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies 21 Dyspnea 22 Seizures 23 Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack 24 Syncope 25 General Adult Trauma Principles and Triage 26 Head Injuries and Facial Trauma 27 Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries 28 Chest, Abdominal, and Pelvic Injuries 29 Extremity Injuries 30 Thermal Burns and Inhalational Injuries 31 Care of the Entrapped Patient, Including Crush Injury 32 Prehospital Physical Assessment and Critical Interpretation of Vital Signs 33 Cardiac Arrest and Arrhythmias 34 Shock 35 Altered Mental Status 36 Chest Pain and Syncope 37 Respiratory Distress Emergencies 38 Seizures 39 Technology Dependent Children 40 General Pediatric Trauma Principles and Triage 40 Technology Dependent Children 41 Head Injuries and Facial Trauma 42 Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries 43 Chest, Abdominal, and Pelvic Injuries 44 Extremity Injuries 45 Thermal Burns and Inhalational Injuries 46 General Principles in Disasters and Multiple Casualty Incidents 46 General Principles in Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents 47 Prehospital Triage for Mass Casualties 48 Mass Casualty Evacuation and Patient Movement 49 Biological and Chemical Terrorism 50 Radiation and Radiation Injury 51 Blast Injuries 52 Hazardous Materials Response 53 Tactical Emergency Medical Services 54 Search and Rescue 55 Community Disaster Preparedness 56 General Principles in Wilderness Medicine 56 General Principles in Wilderness Medicine 57 Bites, Stings, and Envenomations 58 Dysbarisms 59 Heat and Cold Related Illness 60 Lightning and Electrical Emergencies 61 Drowning and Submersion Injury 62 Interfacility Transport, Including Ground Critical Care Transport 63 Bariatric Emergencies 64 Geriatric Emergencies 65 Aeromedical Transport 66 Community Paramedicine 67 Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, and Child Maltreatment 68 End of Life Issues 69 Poisonings and Toxic Exposures 70 Airway Management, Oxygenation and Ventilation 71 Analgesia 72 Care of the Agitated/Suicidal Patient 73 CPR, AED, and Mechanical Compression 74 Field Amputation 75 Hemorrhage Control 76 Intravascular/Interosseous Access and Fluids Resuscitation 77 Perimortem Caesarian Section 78 EMS Point of Care Testing 79 Procedures in the Trauma Patient 80 Telemedicine and Emerging Telecommunications 81 Transport of the Highly Infectious Patient
Robert P. Olympia, MD, FAAP, Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine, Assistant Director of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center/ Penn State Children's Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA and Jeffrey S. Lubin, MD,MPH, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Department of Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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