PACKAGE ISBN-13: 9780134190754

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Emergency Care’s boxed features and pedagogical tools help students learn to think like EMTs

• Core Concepts list the key points addressed in each chapter to help students anticipate chapter content, and guide their studies. Chapter-opening Objectives are based on the National EMS Education Standards.
• Critical Decision Making exercises appear throughout the text. This scenario-based feature helps students learn how to make patient-care decisions while at the scene.
• Decision Points call out key decisions that made during assessment and care of a patient.
• DOT Objectives are listed and follow the DOT numbering system. Each chapter lists the US DOT objectives along with page references that make it easy to see where the objectives are covered.
• FYI sections broaden students' understanding of individual topics. These sections provide material that goes beyond the DOT objectives.
• Inside/Outside boxes call out relevant pathophysiology for a condition or series of conditions, helping students understand disease prevention and treatment.
• Patient Assessment and Care describes the assessment and treatment for particular types of patients, disorders, or injuries. They include important signs and symptoms, as well as key steps of care.
• Point of View photos and stories capture the patient's perspective and recount experiences of EMS care from the patient's point of view.
• Scans summarize step-by-step procedures using easy-to-reference illustrations. Medication Scans provide information needed to help administer medications. Procedure Scans<

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Table of Contents

Section 1 – Foundations

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