num_pages: 277
description: MEET THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCEEmergency Medical Response Teams. Whether in the air on the road or in the ER every day they face split-second decisions--and one false move can mean the difference between life and death.Here are gripping true-life A seventeen-year-old climber tumbles fifty feet to an isolated ledge his only hope the emergency helicopter hovering overhead. A six-year-old boy lies in cardiac arrest as an ambulance rushes him to the hospital. An eighty-seven-year-old man pulled from a car at the bottom of a frozen pond shows no signs of life. . . .Tragedy surprise sometimes even humor--there is all that and more in TRAUMA CENTER where the true experience of emergency medicine begins.
language: English
title: Trauma Center: The front lines of emergency medicine - from EMT units to the ER
publisher: Ivy Books