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Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition

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The book is pretty straight forward and has decent presentations for learning the skills necessary to become a National Registered EMT-B.

The book tends to be slightly redundant in certain areas when page references would have worked better. Some inconsistencies were discovered using the companion Workbook, but nothing the instructors couldn't get past. Actually, it was further encouragement for the students to finish their assignments diligently while "hunting" for more inconsistencies.

All-in-all, I like the book, and I'm anxious to get my hands on the instructor material that accompanies this student textbook when I start teaching this course.

This book shows you step by step on how to perform the duties of an EMT. From the legal issues, to the parts of the body, to patient assessment, to death, this book covers all the necessary topics of what EMT's will do on a regular basis. No matter how much training an EMT will get, they will not be prepared for every situation they encounter, but this book is a good tool to gain the knowledge on how to deal with most emergenices. It explains in detail and shows helpful pictures of things that are needed for one to know for the EMT course. Also there are questions at the end of each chapter to test you on the material you just read. I highly recommended this book for anyone who plans to become an EMT or just wants to learn about emergency patient care.

This book has been such a great help. I am currently using it in my emt-b program at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago, Illinois. Great condition, great service from the seller, and a great book for starting my EMS career.

I used this in EMT class, and I still go back to it often as a reference. There aren't many books written for the EMT-B level, and they tend to follow the same format: EMS procedures and a big lump of basic physio at the beginning, followed by many chapters on different emergencies, and ending with special topics like advanced airways and ALS assist. There are always a few scenarios sprinkled throughout each chapter, and usually some advice from veteran EMT's and paramedics. I'm partial to Brady's "Emergency Care" on these points: the anecdotes are candid, and it includes pertinent information like considerations for dealing with foreign cultures (example: touching a child's head can be deemed either respectful or insulting, depending on the family's background). In contrast, I've found "The Orange Book" frustratingly bureaucratic: for instance, it categorizes course objectives as "affective", "cognitive", and "psychomotor," a distinction which is unhelpful, even meaningless to a practicing EMT. The authors include frequent reminders to follow local protocols, which lets them avoid giving actual instructions.

The most frustrating characteristic of this book is its redundancy. A&P is covered in chapter 4 ("The Human Body"), and then repeated piecemeal throughout the book. For instance, the chapter on respiratory emergencies repeats the same information given in chapter 4, even repeating the same diagrams. Very little detail is added with each repetition. Likewise, each chapter discusses the full patient assessment, including parts which aren't relevant. For instance, the section on sexual assault says to "make airway care a high priority." Airway care is ALWAYS a high priority, and there is no particular reason why airway care should be different (or even particularly relevant) when dealing with sexual assault. It seems as though the authors assume the reader has forgotten everything mentioned in the previous chapters, and the result is a book overstuffed with redundant information.

The book is written by the academy of orthopedic surgeons, and it shows. The section on trauma care is quite thorough, discussing many different types of fractures and dislocations in more detail than the average EMT is likely to know. That said, trauma care is generally straightforward: bandage what's bleeding, splint what needs splinting, and get to the hospital. Medical (non-traumatic) emergencies are generally trickier, and this is where the book falls short. Congestive heart failure-- a serious condition which accounts for many of our calls-- receives only a single page. Discussion of syncope (perhaps my most frequent call) is similarly sparse. Many of our patients have some form of cancer, and the index lists only a single mention of the disease.

Lastly, a plea for better organization. Like most books, this one categorizes diseases mainly by organ system-- a common, and logically coherent method. But our patients don't present their problems this way. A patient's chest pain may turn out to be cardiac, respiratory, or musculoskeletal, and we may never find out which. A chapter on chest pain could help us to distinguish between the three, and discuss appropriate care even when the diagnosis is uncertain. Similarly, a patient's altered mental status may be neurologic (e.g. due to a stroke), or endocrine (due to a diabetic emergency). A chapter on AMS would tell the EMT to look at the patient's blood pressure as a clue to which is which.

Once again, there aren't many books written for the EMT-B, and this is almost as good as any other. If you're enrolling in an EMT course, you probably don't have much choice but to buy it. If you're an instructor choosing a book for your class, do the world a favor: write a better one.

The transaction I had on 8/21/09 was a wonderful experience. Initially, I was very jerky on getting my textbook online,because I was never a fan to that. As of the time I got my text,there was no other avenue of getting it except online. I had no other choice but to give a try because time to use it was running out. The seller gave me a window of 7-14 business days but I got within 3days. The text is "Transportation of the sick & injured, 9th edition" new one. It has been serving its purpose since I got it. It's awesome.

This book and DVD is probably the best written text for EMT-B there is. Take the time (a lot!) to read it thoroughly. It does miss the mark if you solely rely on it to take the National EMT-B test: press your instructor's for the many detail's not in this book that are on the test if you want to pass!

Great book. This is the text book to get certified as an EMT-B in richmond VA. They require the ninth edition. Only thing that i disagree with using this edition is the cpr procedure. It has been updated from ABC to CAB and some other changes. Still an awesome book.

There was not a dvd included. It would have been nice to know before purchasing this product as a student who requires a complete product package.

Book came promptly and customer service was excellent (responded to my emails very quickly) they strived to make my experience fantastic. The CD came broken in the book but that was due to shipping and they would have given me a full refund but I opted out. Book was in condition described.

Great book, in excellent condition, shipped quickly and just what I needed for my class!