Prehospital emergency care : workbook / Edward B. Kuvlesky, Craig N. Story

Contents
Part 1. Standard: preparatory/public health.
Chapter 1: Emergency medical care systems, research, and public health
Chapter 2: Workforce safety and wellness of the EMT
Chapter 3: Medical, legal, and ethical issues
Chapter 4: Documentation
Chapter 5: Communication
Chapter 6: Lifting and moving patients.
Part 2. Standard: anatomy and physiology/medical terminology.
Chapter 7: Anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology.
Part 3. Standard: Pathophysiology.
Chapter 8: Pathophysiology.
Part 4. Standard: life span development.
Chapter 9: Life span development.
Part 5. Standard: airway management, respiration, and artificial ventilation.
Chapter 10: Airway management, artificial ventilation, and oxygenation.
Part 6. Standard: assessment.
Chapter 11: Baseline vital signs, monitoring devices, and history taking
Chapter 12: Scene size-up
Chapter 13: Patient assessment.
Part 7. Standard: pharmacology.
Chapter 14: Pharmacology and medication administration.
Part 8. Standard: shock and resuscitation.
Chapter 15: Shock and resuscitation.
Part 9. Medicine.
Chapter 16: Respiratory emergencies
Chapter 17: Cardiovascular emergencies
Chapter 18: Altered mental status, stroke, and headache
Chapter 19: Seizures and syncope
Chapter 20: Acute diabetic emergencies
Chapter 21: Anaphylactic reactions
Chapter 22: Toxicologic emergencies
Chapter 23: Abdominal, hematologic, gynecologic, genitourinary, and renal emergencies
Chapter 24: Environmental emergencies
Chapter 25: Submersion indicents: drowning and diving emergencies
Chapter 26: Behavioral emergencies.
Part 10. Standard: trauma.
Chapter 27: Trauma overview: the trauma patient and the trauma system
Chapter 28: Bleeding and soft tissue trauma
Chapter 29: Burns
Chapter 30: Musculoskeletal trauma and nontraumatic fractures
Chapter 31: Head trauma
Chapter 32: Spinal column and spinal cord trauma
Chapter 33: Eye, face, and neck trauma
Chapter 34: Chest trauma
Chapter 35: Abdominal and genitourinary trauma
Chapter 36: Multisystem trauma and trauma in special patient populations.
Part 11. Standard: special patient populations.
Chapter 37: Obstetrics and care of the newborn
Chapter 38: Pediatrics
Chapter 39: Geriatrics
Chapter 40: Patients with special challenges
Chapter 41: The combat veteran.
Part 12: Standard: EMS operations.
Chapter 42: Ambulance operations and air medical response
Chapter 43: Gaining access and patient extrication
Chapter 44: Hazardous materials ;
Chapter 45: Multiple-casualty incidents and incident management
Chapter 46: EMS response to terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction.
Course review self-test.
Answer to chapter exercises.
Answers to course review self-test.