Emergency Medical Services Sourcebook
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Omnigraphics
Published: September 2002
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780780804203
Subjects: Popular Works; Medical; Emergency Medicine; Consumer Health; Safety; Reference; Medical emergencies; First Aid; Health - General; Emergency Medical Services
Table of contents: title: What is the emergency medical service system? -- The history of emergency medical services -- A statistical profile of emergency medicine -- The role of emergency medical dispatch - past, present, and future -- Ambulance operators -- Emergency medical technicians and paramedics -- Evaluating your access to emergency care -- Getting the most from your health insurance plan -- Planning in advance for your medical treatment -- An emergency preparedness checklist -- Making a first aid kit -- Making a disaster supply kit -- Your family's disaster plan -- Tips for creating an emergency health information card -- Emergency departments : when to use them, when not to use them -- What is urgent care? -- Links in the chain of survival -- Make the right call for emergency services -- First there, first care: bystander care for the injured -- Preventing disease transmission when providing emergency care -- Let them through ... It could be you : making way for emergency vehicles -- Medical emergencies -- Household emergencies -- Emergencies away from home -- Weather-related emergencies -- Large-scale disasters -- How emergency departments work -- Who's who in the emergency department -- Tools of the trade -- Your visit to the emergency department -- Access to emergency services -- Emergency care : know your rights -- Your responsibilities as a patient  -- What is the emergency medical treatment and active labor act? -- Power of attorney -- Children and emergencies: an overview -- Preventing childhood emergencies -- What to do until help arrives -- When should you take your child to the emergency department? -- The do's and don'ts of transporting children in an ambulance -- Tips for parents communicating with emergency department professionals -- Personal emergency response systems -- Issues affecting the emergency care of seniors -- Patterns of emergency department use -- Principles of geriatric emergency medicine -- Medical ethics in emergency care -- How can hospitals improve confidentiality in the emergency department? -- Emergency department overcrowding -- Emergency department waiting times -- Emergency department technology -- Shift work in emergency medicine -- The costs of emergency care -- Terrorism and the emergency medical service system -- Diversity and emergency medical services -- Emergency medical professionals and the media: developing a working relationship -- Glossary of emergency medicine terms and abbreviations -- Helpful medical forms -- Government report on emergency medical services -- Organizations, websites, and sources of additional information about emergencies and emergency medicine -- State emergency medical services offices.