Emergency care

For over 30 years, Emergency Care has provided generations of EMT students with the practical information they need to succeed in the classroom and in the field. Updated with the latest research and developments in emergency medical services, this edition meets the 2010 American Heart Association guidelines for CPR and ECC. Using the National EMS Education Standards as a foundation, Emergency Care goes beyond the Standards to provide the most current, accurate reflection of EMS practice today. The text integrates scientific principles in an easy-to-understand way, with a host of critical-thinking features that help students learn to think like EMTs.

Includes index.

sect. 1. Foundations -- 1. Introduction to emergency medical care -- Emergency Medical Services System -- EMS -- EMT -- 2. The well-being of the EMT -- Precautions -- Diseases of concern -- Emotion and stress -- Scene safety -- Hazardous material incidents -- Terrorist incidents -- Rescue operations -- Violence -- 3. Lifting and moving patients -- Protecting yourself : body mechanics -- Protecting your patient : emergency, urgent, and non-urgent moves -- 4. Medical/legal and ethical issues -- Scope of practice -- Patient consent and refusal -- Ethical dilemmas -- Do not resuscitate orders and physician orders of life sustaining treatment -- Negligence -- Duty to act -- Good Samaritan Laws -- Confidentiality -- Crime scenes -- Reporting requirements -- 5. Medical terminology -- The language of anatomy and physiology -- 6. Anatomy and physiology -- Locating body organs and structures -- Body systems -- Musculoskeletal system -- Respiratory system -- Cardiovascular system -- Life support chain -- Lymphatic system -- Nervous system -- Digestive system -- Recognizing sympathetic nervous system response -- Integumentary system -- Endocrine system -- Renal system -- Reproductive system -…