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The two-volume Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight delivers a thorough foundation upon which to succeed as an EMS medical director and prepare for the NAEMSP National EMS Medical Directors Course and Practicum. Focusing on EMS in the 'real world', the book offers specific management tools that will be useful in the reader's own local EMS system and provides contextual understanding of how EMS functions within the broader emergency care system at a state, local, and national level.
The two volumes offer the core knowledge trainees will need to successfully complete their training and begin their career as EMS physicians, regardless of the EMS systems in use in their areas. A companion website rounds out the book's offerings with audio and video clips of EMS best practice in action. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of:
* A thorough introduction to the history of EMS
* An exploration of EMS airway management, including procedures and challenges, as well as how to manage ventilation, oxygenation, and breathing in patients, including cases of respiratory distress
* Practical discussions of medical problems, including the challenges posed by the undifferentiated patient, altered mental status, cardiac arrest and dysrhythmias, seizures, stroke, and allergic reactions
* An examination of EMS systems, structure, and leadership
List of contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
About the Companion Site
Volume I
Chapter 1 History of Emergency Medical Services
Jon R. Krohmer
Section I: Airway
Chapter 2 EMS Airway Management: System Considerations
Francis X. Guyette and Henry E. Wang
Chapter 3 Airway Procedures
Jestin N. Carlson and Henry E. Wang
Chapter 4 Airway Management: Special Situations
Brendan Anzalone and Henry E. Wang
Section II: Breathing
Chapter 5 Respiratory Distress
Matthew R. Neth and Mohamud R. Daya
Chapter 6 Oxygenation and Ventilation
Vincent N. Mosesso and Angus M. Jameson
Section III: Circulation
Chapter 7 Hypotension and Shock
Francis X. Guyette, Raymond L. Fowler, and Ronald N. Roth
Chapter 8 Vascular Access
Bryan B. Kitch and Eric H. Beck
Chapter 9 Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndromes
Joseph P. Ornato, Michael R. Sayre, and James I. Syrett
Chapter 10 Cardiac Dysrhythmias
Christian C. Knutsen and Donald M. Yealy
Chapter 11 Cardiac Procedures and Managing Technology
Joanna L. Adams and David P. Thomson
Chapter 12 Cardiac Arrest Systems of Care
Bryan McNally, Paul Middleton, Marcus Ong, and Gayathri Devi Nadarajan
Chapter 13 Cardiac Arrest: Clinical Management
Jon C. Rittenberger and Vincent N. Mosesso, Jr.
Section IV: Medical Problems
Chapter 14 The Challenge of the Undifferentiated Patient
Andrew Travers
Chapter 15 Altered Mental Status
Mariecely Luciano-Feijoó and Jefferson G. Williams
Chapter 16 Syncope
David J. Schoenwetter
Chapter 17 Seizures
J. Stephen Huff
Chapter 18 Stroke
Timothy P. Chizmar and Janelle M. Martin
Chapter 19 Abdominal Pain
Jeffrey D. Ferguson and Michael Ferras
Chapter 20 Diabetic Emergencies
Mariecely Luciano-Feijoó, José G. Cabañas, and Jane H. Brice
Chapter 21 Allergic Reactions
Debra G. Perina and Briana N. Tully
Chapter 22 Renal Failure and Dialysis
Jocelyn M. De Guzman and Bryan B. Kitch
Chapter 23 Infectious and Communicable Diseases
Russell D. MacDonald
Chapter 24 Choking
Gregory H. Gilbert
Chapter 25 Submersion Injuries and Drowning
Robert Lowe
Section V: Trauma Problems
Chapter 26 Trauma Systems of Care
James E. Winslow
Chapter 27 Blunt Trauma Considerations
Sabina A. Braithwaite and Noah Bernhardson
Chapter 28 Motor Vehicle Crashes
Stewart C. Wang, Kristen Cunningham, Sven Holcombe, and Robert Kaufman
Chapter 29 Penetrating Trauma
Michelle Welsford and Clare Wallner
Chapter 30 Traumatic Brain Injury
Anjni Joiner
Chapter 31 Electrical Injuries
Jeffrey Lubin
Chapter 32 Blast Injury
Andre Pennardt and Emerson Franke
Chapter 33 Thermal and Chemical Burns
Richard Schwartz, Richard Cartie, Peter Bui, and Bradley Michael Golden
Chapter 34 Crush Injury
Roberto C. Portela and Nathan Roney
Chapter 35 Hemorrhage Control
Jeremiah Escajeda
Chapter 36 Orthopedic Injuries
Mary P. Mercer
Chapter 37 Ocular Trauma
Eric Hawkins and Joseph Blackwell
Chapter 38 Bites, stings, and envenomations
Adam Frisch, Andrew King, and Stephanie O. Frisch
Chapter 39 Field Trauma Triage
Matthew Cobb, Aaron Dix, and Scott M. Sasser
Chapter 40 Trauma-Stabilizing Procedures
Benjamin A. Smith
Section VI: Obstetrics and Gynecology Problems
Chapter 41 Physiology of Pregnancy
Rickquel Tripp
Chapter 42 Emergencies of Pregnancy
Aiman Saleh and Joseph Grover
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About the author
David C. Cone, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Jane H. Brice, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Theodore R. Delbridge, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, Baltimore, Maryland.
J. Brent Myers, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, ESO, Associate Medical Director, Wake County EMS, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Summary
The two-volume Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight delivers a thorough foundation upon which to succeed as an EMS medical director and prepare for the NAEMSP National EMS Medical Directors Course and Practicum. Focusing on EMS in the 'real world', the book offers specific management tools that will be useful in the reader's own local EMS system and provides contextual understanding of how EMS functions within the broader emergency care system at a state, local, and national level.
The two volumes offer the core knowledge trainees will need to successfully complete their training and begin their career as EMS physicians, regardless of the EMS systems in use in their areas. A companion website rounds out the book's offerings with audio and video clips of EMS best practice in action. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of:
* A thorough introduction to the history of EMS
* An exploration of EMS airway management, including procedures and challenges, as well as how to manage ventilation, oxygenation, and breathing in patients, including cases of respiratory distress
* Practical discussions of medical problems, including the challenges posed by the undifferentiated patient, altered mental status, cardiac arrest and dysrhythmias, seizures, stroke, and allergic reactions
* An examination of EMS systems, structure, and leadership
