num_pages: 1268
description: The sixth edition of this best-selling, reader-friendly book contains clear, step-by-step explanations with understandable material that is comprehensive, stimulating, and challenging enough to prepare and equip practitioners for real-life situations. Contains twenty-six new assessment flowcharts illustrating care steps for breathing difficulty, cardiac compromise, diabetic emergencies, bleeding and shock, burns, head injuries, newborn resuscitation, and many more. Assessment summaries, protocols, and algorithms summarize care for, but not limited to cardiac arrest, stroke, allergic reaction, near-drowning, abdominal injuries, and pediatric emergencies. For serious EMT-B's who want to go above and beyond the D.O.T. requirements.
language: English
title: Prehospital Emergency Care
titlecomplete: Prehospital Emergency Care
genres: Medical, Medicine, School, Textbooks, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 160
publisher: Pearson