The Basic EMT Comprehensive Prehospital Patient Care - Softcover

McSwain MD FACS, Norman E.; Paturas EMT-P, James L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323011101 ISBN 13: 9780323011105

Publisher: Mosby, 2001

Synopsis

The Basic EMT: Comprehensive Prehospital Patient Care, 2nd Edition is the essential EMT training tool! Like the outstanding first edition, it offers thorough background information and encourages critical thinking skills -- and the new edition also presents the physical skills of the EMT in a user-friendly step-by-step format. Plus, extensive new information has been added on stroke, CPR, AEDs, substance abuse, trauma and more. The text's entire approach to emergency treatment has been drafted into an integrated series of algorithms throughout the text, allowing you to see the big picture as you learn about each part of the process.

About this title

About the Author:

Norman E. McSwain, Jr., MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA; James L. Paturas, EMT-P, Director, Emergency Medical Services, Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT

About this edition

• Publisher: Mosby
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0323011101
• ISBN 13: 9780323011105
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 910