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Paramedic Care: Principles and Practice; Volume 1, Introduction to Advanced Prehospital Care (3rd Edition)

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I can't even begin to count the ways that this textbook series is bad. I am nearly through a year-long paramedic program, and from the inconsistencies and contradictions in the text, the way text is repeated - verbatim - from one book to the next, and the incredibly poor writing, aimed at the lowest-common-denominator student, this series makes me cringe. Worse than all of this is the Test Generator provided for instructors - this was not a tool created by educators. If your teachers decide to use this, get ready to learn the bizarre wording in the Brady text by heart for pointless multiple-choice questions that have NOTHING to do with the information you need to learn to become a Paramedic.

The series is written so poorly--on a grade level that is aimed at the most imbecile of students--which makes the books an extreme task to read. The author of the books informs you of the most obvious information you could imagine (i.e. "stop your patient's bleeding" or "major bleeding usually originates with trauma" among others). Sentences and even paragraphs are repeated countless times throughout all books (which leads me to believe that the author needed to bulk the books up). The pictures, and even some procedures, are grossly outdated. Some of the information provided is grossly irrelevant to paramedic care or does not require extreme detail (e.g. intimate space is 0.2 to 1 foot, personal space is 1 to 4 feet, social space is 4 to 12 feet, etc.). The test generator is, for some unknown reason (but not surprisingly considering the already poor quality of the text), 99.9% of the time geared toward testing the irrelevant parts of the book.

There are good parts to this series, but far too little compared to the Nancy Caroline text. Whatever textbooks you decide to purchase for paramedic class, steer clear of this series.