Mosby's Paramedic Textbook
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sanders, Mick J., PUBLISHER: C.V. Mosby, -- Extensively updated throughout to conform to the guidelines for emergency cardiovascular care including a completely rewritten cardiology chapter. Thoroughly updated and extensively illustrated, the revised reprint of Mosby's Paramedic Textbook, 2nd Edition provides complete coverage of prehospital care in a single, comprehensive text. Its table of contents parallels the new United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) paramedic national standard curriculum, giving readers all the resources they need to pass local, state, and national examinations. The text explains the paramedic's role, the unique characteristics of prehospital care, the how-to's of patient assessment and emergency care for acutely ill and traumatically injured patients, and the principles and practice of emergency cardiac care, emergency pharmacology, infectious diseases, pediatric and geriatric emergencies, and much more. A valuable resource for both paramedic students and practicing paramedics, it keeps the reader abreast of evolving trends in the prehospital emergency care arena while laying the foundation for successful certification or recertification. -- Corresponds with the eight major divisions of the U.S. DOT's Paramedic national Standard Curriculum. -- Access to Merlin, a dedicated web site that provides additional up-to-date tools and resources. -- Four New appendixes provide valuable supplemental content on Lifespan Development, Injury Prevention. -- Many New chapters, New Critical Thinking questions in each chapter and New Tricks of the Trade boxes throughout. -- Includes more than 200 New illustrations, totaling approximately 950 line drawings, photos, and colorillustrations. -- Includes an extensive pedagogy and provides a complete Glossary. -- Follows the U.S. DOT National Standard curriculum to prepare the student for local, state, and national certification -- all in one comprehensive textbook. -- Outlines cardiac rhythms and dysrhythmias in Leads I, II, III, and MCL1, as well as electrophysiology; 12-lead ECG monitoring; thrombolytic therapy; and current treatment modalities as recommended by the American Heart Association. -- Emergency Drug Index appendix provides brief drug monographs on more than 70 emergency drugs.