Paramedic Field Care: A Complaint Based Approach [Hardcover]

ACEP (Author), Peter T. Pons MD FACEP (Editor), Debra Cason RN MS EMT-P (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1997 | ISBN-10: 080166361X | ISBN-13: 978-0801663611

ACEP's Paramedic Field Care is a core paramedic textbook that supports the EMT-Paramedic National Standard Curriculum, yet moves in a bold new direction. Its patient-presentation (complaint-based) approach encourages linkage of information gleaned from lectures and books to actual field care.

* Patient-presentation based -- a first for a paramedic reference! * Supports the EMT-Paramedic National Standard Curriculum to keep you up to date * Includes a Conditions by Diagnosis section, a Prehospital Medications section, and a Skills section with fully-illustrated, step-by-step demonstrations of 40 skills you need to know * Real-life approach reflects the growth of EMS and the paramedic's level of involvement in the emergency system

Product Details

• Hardcover: 896 pages
• Publisher: Mosby (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080166361X
• ISBN-13: 978-0801663611
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,314,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sorry to see it not updated, March 13, 2005

By 

Marc Colbeck "Paramedic Instructor" (Canada & the Middle East) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paramedic Field Care: A Complaint Based Approach (Hardcover)

This is one of the few paramedic textbooks that I really enjoy. [...] Even though it is almost ten years old, the section of the text that reviews each major complaint is still one of the best around. There was a lot of other information that was put into the book - I guess so that it was a 'complete' paramedic textbook - that was only 'OK'. If you're studying to be a paramedic, or if you're an experienced medic looking for a good review of working through a differential diagnosis - this is a good text (and cheap now, too).

It would be nice to see the authors ditch the other stuff and just reissue the Major Complaints review as a new, updated text.