Prehospital Emergency Medicine Secrets

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Prehospital Emergency Medicine Care Secrets is an all-new addition to this popular series, offering practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This new resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style - making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

Contents

[draft of TOC – upon approval, I would seek additional reviews by experts on contents before finalizing, including Dr. Peter Cameron]

Top 100 Secrets

Section 1 History of Emergency Medical Services

        History of Emergency Medical Services

        Section 2 Emergency Medical Services Operations

        Destination Guidelines and Hospital Designation

        Emergency Vehicle Operation

        EMS System Design

        Media and Public Relations

        Medical Direction

        Medicolegal Issues

        Prehospital Communications

        Public Health and EMS

        Quality Improvement

        Research in EMS

        Section 3 Personal Safety and Wellness

        Critical Incident Stress

        Infectious Disease Exposure

        Occupational Health Issues in EMS

        Scene Safety

        Section 4 Adult Medical Care

        Decision making and critical interpretation of vital signs

        Prehospital physical assessment

        Abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, dehydration

        Altered mental status

        Arrhythmias

        Cardiac arrest, including ECMO

        Cardiac emergencies – chest pain, STEMI, ACS, CHF

        Cardiac device emergencies – pacemaker/implanted defibrillator dysfunction, left ventricular assist devices

        Diabetic emergencies

        Gastrointestinal hemorrhage

        Hypotension and shock

        Infectious disease emergencies/sepsis

        Psychiatric emergenc