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.

• The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective.
• Covers the full range of essential topics including disaster and multiple casualty incidents, psychiatric emergencies, and prehospital skills and procedures for in-training or practicing professionals.
• Fully revised and updated, including protocols and guidelines that are continuously evolving and that increasingly dictate best practices.
• Includes chapters on public health and EMS, infectious disease emergencies/sepsis, telemedicine and emerging telecommunications, transport of the highly infectious patient, mass casualty evacuation and patient movement, biological and chemical terrorism, community disaster preparedness, and airway management, oxygenation, and ventilation.
• Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.
• Bulleted lists, mnemonics, practical tips from global leaders in the field – all providing a concise overview of important board-relevant content.
• Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime.

Contents

۱. History of Emergency Medical Services
۲. Destination Guidelines and Hospital Designation
۳. Emergency Vehicle Operation, EMS System Design, and Prehospital Communications
۴. Media and Public Relations
۵. Medical Direction and Medicolegal Issues
۶. Public Health and EMS
۷. Prehospital Emergency Care Secrets—Quality Improvement and Research
۸. Scene Safety
۹. Critical Incident Stress and Occupational Health Issues in EMS
۱۰. Prehospital Physical Assessment and Critical Interpretation of Vital Signs
۱۱. Cardiac Arrest and ECMO
۱۲. Hypotension and Shock
۱۳. Altered Mental Status
۱۴. Arrhythmias and Electrocardiogram Interpretation
۱۵. Cardiac Emergencies—Chest Pain, Stemi, ACS, CHF
۱۶. Cardiac Device Emergencies
۱۷. Gastrointestinal Emergencies
۱۸. Diabetic Emergencies
۱۹. Sepsis
۲۰. Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies

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۶۰. Lightning and Electrical Emergencies
۶۱. Drowning and Submersion Injury
۶۲. Interfacility Transport, Including Ground Critical Care Transport
۶۳. Bariatric Emergencies
۶۴. Geriatric Emergencies
۶۵. Aeromedical Transport
۶۶. Community Paramedicine
۶۷. Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, and Child Maltreatment
۶۸. End-of-Life Issues
۶۹. Poisonings and Toxic Exposures
۷۰. Airway Management, Oxygenation, and Ventilation
۷۱. Analgesia
۷۲. Care of the Agitated/Suicidal Patient
۷۳. CPR, AED, and Mechanical Compression
۷۴. Field Amputation
۷۵. Hemorrhage Control
۷۶. Intravascular/Interosseous Access and Fluid Resuscitation
۷۷. Perimortem Caesarian Section
۷۸. EMS Point-of-Care Testing
۷۹. Procedures in the Trauma Patient
۸۰. Telemedicine and Emerging Telecommunications
۸۱. Transport of Patients with Highly Hazardous Communicable Diseases