911 Responding for Life: Case Studies in Emergency Care - Softcover

Whittle, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0766826767 ISBN 13: 9780766826762

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

Responding for Life is a self-directed study guide of case studies in emergency care. It integrates the theoreticial knowledge of prehospital emergency medicine with the critical thinking skills of assessment and intervention. This user-friendly resource focuses on a sytematic approach to problem-solving emergency patient care. (KEYWORDS: EMS, Emergency Care, EMT)

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Review

Case Study 1: Abnormal Pain in a 28-year-old male Case Study. 2: Altered Mental Status in a Young Woman. Case Study 3: Motor Vehicle Accident with Multiple Patients Case Study 4: Environmental Exposure in Two Teenage Boys. Case Study 5: Weakness and Lethargy in an Elderly Female. Case Study 6: Altered Mental Status in a Construction Worker. Case Study 7: Headache and Malaise in an Expectant Mother. Case Study 8: Teenager in Severe Respiratory Distress. Case Study 9: Sixty-six Year Old Female with Shortness of Breath. Case Study 10: Forty-eight Year Old Male Collapsed. Case Study 11: Dyspnea and Chest Pain in an Elderly Female. Case Study 12: Young Man with Accidental Thermal Burns. Case Study 13: Child with Bradycardia and Respiratory Distress. Case Study 14: Twenty-six Year Old with Traumatic Chest Injuries. Case Study 15: Chest Pain in a Fifty-six Year Old Male. Case Study 16: Forty-three Year Old Man in Convulsions. Case Study 17: Six Year Old in Acute Respiratory Distress. Appendix: Preparing for Certification Exam.

Synopsis

Provides the reader (EMT) with up-to-date knowledge by combining medical pathologies with actual case histories, and tests the reader's knowledge base and reasoning ability through critical thinking and a problem-solving approach.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0766826767
• ISBN 13: 9780766826762
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464