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
