Intermediate Emergency Care: Principles and Practice

Comprehensive, accurate, and level-appropriate, Intermediate Care: Principles and Practices gives students a solid foundation of essential practice 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 all the background content and skills coverage required for Intermediate-level education.

Topics covered include:

Prepatory Information

• Foundations of the EMT-Intermediate

• Overview of Human Systems

• Emergency Pharmacology

• Venous Access and Medication Administration

• Airway Management and Ventilation

Patient Assessment

• History Taking

• Techniques of Physical Examination

• Patient Assessment in the Field

• Clinical Decision Making

• Communications

• Documentation

Trauma Emergencies

• Trauma and Trauma Systems

• Blunt Trauma

• Penetrating Trauma

• Hemorrhage and Shock

• Burns

• Thoracic Trauma

• Trauma Management Skills

Medical Emergencies

• Respiratory Emergencies

• Cardiovascular Emergencies

• Diabetic Emergencies

• Allergic Reactions

• Poisonings/Overdose Emergencies

• Neurological Emergencies

• Non-Traumatic Abdominal Emergencies

• Environmental Emergencies

• Behavioral Emergencies

• Gynecological Emergencies

Special Considerations

• Obstetrical Emergencies

• Neonatal Resuscitation

• Pediatric Emergencies

• Geriatric Emergencies

• Assessment-Based Management

• Responding to Terrorist Acts

Authors: Bryan E. Bledsoe; Robert S. Porter; and Richard A. Cherry
Published: 2004
ISBN: 0-13-113607-0
1424 Pages