Nancy Caroline’s Emergency Care in the Streets 8th Edition

Description

This book is the next step in the evolution of a premier paramedic education program. This legendary paramedic textbook, now in its eighth edition, covers every competency statement of the National EMS Education Standards for Paramedics with clarity and precision, ensuring student comprehension and encouraging critical thinking. It emphasizes the ideal that becoming a paramedic is a continual pursuit of growth and excellence throughout an entire career, with concepts of team leadership and professionalism woven throughout. The text also provides a strong application to real-world EMS through evolving patient case studies in each chapter, which are followed by a comprehensive summary and a Patient Care Report, showing students exactly how the presented case would be documented.

Key Features

• Evidence-Based Recommendations: The content of this edition reflects the guidance and recommendations of an extremely experienced and geographically diverse group of authors, and is based on evidence from the field and studies published in the medical literature.
• Current Medical Content: It meets and exceeds the paramedic National EMS Education Standards and reflects national model clinical guidelines. This edition thoroughly addresses the latest ECC and CPR guidelines.
• New Chapters: Based on feedback from program directors and educators, two new chapters have been added: Medical Terminology and Career Development.
• Real-World Application: Students are given a genuine context for the application of knowledge through evolving patient case studies in each chapter. These cases provide opportunities to apply knowledge and become better providers.