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Prehospital Emergency Medicine Secrets

  • 1 Edición - 8 de octubre de 2021
  • Última edición
  • Editores: Robert P. Olympia, Jeffrey S. Lubin
  • Idioma: Inglés

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… Leer más

Descripción

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.

Puntos claves

  • 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.

De interès para

Medical students (MS: 91,000 total enrollment as of 2018-19 per AAMC, https://www.aamc.org/download/321526/data/factstableb1-2.pdf); residents; physician assistant students, nurse practitioner students

Índice

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

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 17 de noviembre de 2021
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los editores

RO

Robert P. Olympia

Afiliaciones y experiencia
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

JL

Jeffrey S. Lubin

Afiliaciones y experiencia
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