The revised and updated Fifth Edition of the best-selling paramedic textbook of all time is the best ever. Includes the ACLS CPR Guidelines. This is the ideal guide for paramedics teaching and learning life-saving responses in emergency conditions, and an essential guide for those preparing for certification or recertification.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The BEST text around...,
By Paramedic (Maine) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Emergency Care in the Streets (Paperback)
Dr. Nancy Caroline really put some thought into writing this book. It is an extrememly well-organized text and arguably the most thorough review of paramedic skills available anywhere. Her writing style makes the reader feel like they're being told how things really are on the streets. Dr. Caroline REALLY UNDERSTANDS how cirsumstances can differ from in-hospital care. This book covers many advanced topics not found in other "dumbed down" (read: new curriculum) EMS textbooks. It also doesn't read like a comic book, like one of the new EMT-Basic texts. This book is for the serious student of pre-hospital care who wants to be one step ahead of the rest.
9 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Best text in the busines!? no way!,
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This review is from: Emergency Care in the Streets (Paperback)
Well, if this is the only textbook available to you, that will be the only justifiable reason for ever buying it. The successful conveyance of knowledge is as much dependant on accurate and thorough coverage of its topics as the style of writing. Dr Caroline would do well as a kindergarten teacher. The entire text is written from the perspective of superior (highly at that) to subordinate (lowly and tehn some). I now hold a tertiary degree in emergency medicine and left the preschool grade some years ago. Pre-hospital emergency medicine has come a LONG way in the last 10 years, to the extent that paramedics are capable of bringing an exceptionaly high level of care to the patient with minutes of the emergency arising, and stabilising them for transport (again at an exceptional level of care). Doctors are prepared to delegate pre hospital care to "lesser trained" individuals when the highest level of care and insight is arguably most required within the "golden hour". If this book's text was written in a manner befitting the career, we might find a greater interest in the career path on an international level, and a a greater esteem for the men and women who put their lives on the line in hazardous situations and capably manage major incidents on a daily basis. We are no longer the "first aiders" of yesterlear who only knew to toss a patient on a collapsible stretcher and rush to hospital. We are professionals, trained to make critical decisions under adverse circumstances and extreme pressures. If the "attitude" of this text was revised, this book might finaly find its place as a useful training document.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Not bad...,
By Erik (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Emergency Care in the Streets (Paperback)
This text was supplied to my class of BLS Paramedics. I have to say that the concepts were easy to understand and all BUT... For the most part Paramedic students are adults and this book uses alot of "explain it to me like I five years old terms" I keep it on my shelf at home and thats where it will stay.
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In this chapter, we shall examine how paramedics came to be, what paramedics do, and what gives paramedics the authority to function. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electric conduction system, different clinical findings, internal phlebotomy, medical root words, microdrip infusion set, stable side position, correct compression point, triple airway maneuver, notify the receiving hospital, check for spontaneous breathing, prehospital management, pediatric status epilepticus, tongue foreign body, biologic death, esophageal obturator airway, prehospital use, patient whose chief complaint, depolarizing impulse, pacemaker site, blind nasotracheal intubation, prehospital emergency care, main cylinder valve, prehospital treatment, beta agent, dire medical emergency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ann Emerg Med, United States, Further Reading, Crit Care Med, American Heart Association, Ann Emery Med, Dis Child, New York, Ann Intern Med, Arch Intern Med, Prehosp Disaster Med, Activity Critical Performance, Drug Handbook, Can Med Assoc, Arch Surg, Emergency Medical Treatment, Environmental Emergencies, Postgrad Med, South Med, Department of Transportation, Clin Toxicol, American College of Emergency Physicians, Ann Surg, Good Samaritan, Instructor Based New!
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In this chapter, we shall examine how paramedics came to be, what paramedics do, and what gives paramedics the authority to function. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electric conduction system, different clinical findings, internal phlebotomy, medical root words, microdrip infusion set, stable side position, correct compression point, triple airway maneuver, notify the receiving hospital, check for spontaneous breathing, prehospital management, pediatric status epilepticus, tongue foreign body, biologic death, esophageal obturator airway, prehospital use, patient whose chief complaint, depolarizing impulse, pacemaker site, blind nasotracheal intubation, prehospital emergency care, main cylinder valve, prehospital treatment, beta agent, dire medical emergency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ann Emerg Med, United States, Further Reading, Crit Care Med, American Heart Association, Ann Emery Med, Dis Child, New York, Ann Intern Med, Arch Intern Med, Prehosp Disaster Med, Activity Critical Performance, Drug Handbook, Can Med Assoc, Arch Surg, Emergency Medical Treatment, Environmental Emergencies, Postgrad Med, South Med, Department of Transportation, Clin Toxicol, American College of Emergency Physicians, Ann Surg, Good Samaritan, Instructor Based New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- EMT-Paramedic (P) PreTest Self Assessment and Review by Richard E. J. Westfal in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Pharmacology for the EMS Provider by Richard K. Beck in Back Matter
- Ballistic Trauma by Peter F. Mahoney on page 533
- Prehospital Emergency Care: A Guide for Paramedics, Third Edition (Clinical Handbook Series) by J. Abbott in Back Matter
- Elvis' DNA Proves He's Alive by Bill Beeny on page 60
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