The foundation for EMS education was established in 1971 when the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) authored the first emergency medical technician textbook. Since then, the AAOS has set the gold standard for EMS training programs with the Orange Book Series. This Second Edition, based on Intermediate Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, raises the bar even higher with world-class medical content and innovative instructional resources that meet the diverse needs of today’s educators and students.
Based on the new National EMS Education Standards for Advanced Emergency Medical Technician, the Second Edition offers complete coverage of every competency statement with clarity and precision in a concise format that ensures student comprehension and encourages critical thinking. New cognitive and didactic material is presented, along with new skills and features, to create an innovative AEMT training solution.
Topics including advanced pathophysiology, acid-base balance, fluids and electrolytes, intravenous therapy, intraosseous access, blood glucose monitoring, and administration of AEMT-level medications tailor this textbook to the new Advanced EMT level. Additional online skills allow this textbook to be customized for every AEMT training program’s unique needs.
Current, State-of-the-Art Medical ContentAdvanced Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Second Edition incorporates up-to-date, evidence-based medical concepts to ensure that students are taught assessment and treatment modalities that will help patients in the field today.
Advanced PathophysiologyAdvanced Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Second Edition provides a solid foundation in pathophysiology—one of the key knowledge areas required to become a successful Advanced EMT.
Patient Assessment
This Second Edition teaches and reinforces the concept of Patient Assessment with a single, comprehensive chapter, ensuring that students understand patient assessment as a single, integrated process—the way that providers actually practice it in the field. Each medical and trauma chapter reinforces the patient assessment process by highlighting the unique aspects of the illness or injury.
Clear Application to Real-World EMS
Through evolving patient case studies in each chapter, the Second Edition offers students a genuine context for the application of the knowledge presented in the chapter. This approach makes it clear how all of the information will be used to help patients in the field.
Key Features
AEMT includes numerous pedagogical features to enhance learning and put classroom knowledge into practice:
- You Are the Provider progressive case studies appear throughout each chapter, allowing the student to walk through a realistic emergency call and its assessment and management. Each case includes critical thinking questions to help the student synthesize the concepts he or she has learned. Chapters conclude with answers to the questions posed within the cases.
- A Patient Care Report concludes the You Are the Provider case study, showing a concrete example of how an AEMT would document the emergency call presented in this case study.
- Advanced Pathophysiology. Provides a solid foundation in pathophysiology—one of the key knowledge areas required to become a successful AEMT.
- Coverage of patient assessment is reinforced and clearly presented in medical, trauma, and special populations chapters with a color-coded head structure emphasizing the five core steps of assessment: scene size-up, primary assessment, history taking, secondary assessment, and reassessment.
- Skill Drills show how to perform skills step-by-step, and are accompanied by detailed explanations in the chapter.
- Safety tip boxes reinforce safety concerns for both the AEMT and the patient.
- Words of Wisdom tip boxes include useful advice from the perspective of an experienced AEMT.
- Special Populations tip boxes discuss the specific needs and emergency care of special populations, including pediatric patients, geriatric patients, and special needs patients.
- Key terms are bolded and underlined within the chapter, and defined at the end of each chapter, as well as in a complete glossary at the end of the book.
- End-of-chapter material includes:
- Ready for Review, a bulleted summary of the chapter.
- Vital Vocabulary, the chapter’s key terms and definitions.
- Assessment in Action, a scenario and 7-10 multiple-choice questions to test the student’s understanding of the chapter content.
Contents
Section 1 Preparatory
- Chapter 1 EMS Systems
- Chapter 2 Workforce Safety and Wellness
- Chapter 3 Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues
- Chapter 4 Communication and Documentation
- Chapter 5 The Human Body
- Chapter 6 Life Span Development
Section 2 Pharmacology
- Chapter 7 Principles of Pharmacology
- Chapter 8 Vascular Access and Medication Administration
Section 3 Assessment
- Chapter 9 Patient Assessment
Section 4 Airway
- Chapter 10 Airway Management
Section 5 Shock and Resuscitation
- Chapter 11 Shock
- Chapter 12 BLS Resuscitation
Section 6 Medical
- Chapter 13 Medical Overview
- Chapter 14 Respiratory Emergencies
- Chapter 15 Cardiovascular Emergencies
- Chapter 16 Neurologic Emergencies
- Chapter 17 Gastrointestinal and Urologic Emergencies
- Chapter 18 Endocrine and Hematologic Emergencies
- Chapter 19 Immunologic Emergencies
- Chapter 20 Toxicologic Emergencies
- Chapter 21 Psychiatric Emergencies
- Chapter 22 Gynecologic Emergencies
Section 7 Trauma
- Chapter 23 Trauma Overview
- Chapter 24 Bleeding
- Chapter 25 Soft-Tissue Injuries
- Chapter 26 Face and Neck Injuries
- Chapter 27 Head and Spine Injuries
- Chapter 28 Chest Injuries
- Chapter 29 Abdominal and Genitourinary Injuries
- Chapter 30 Orthopaedic Injuries
- Chapter 31 Environmental Emergencies
Section 8 Special Patient Populations
- Chapter 32 Obstetrics and Neonatal Care
- Chapter 33 Pediatric Emergencies
- Chapter 34 Geriatric Emergencies
- Chapter 35 Patients With Special Challenges
Section 9 EMS Operations
- Chapter 36 Lifting and Moving Patients
- Chapter 37 Transport Operations
- Chapter 38 Vehicle Extrication and Special Rescue
- Chapter 39 Incident Management
- Chapter 40 Terrorism Response and Disaster Management
Appendix A Medical Terminology
Glossary
Index
About the Authors
- The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) provides education and practice management services for orthopaedic surgeons and allied health professionals. The Academy also serves as an advocate for improved patient care and informs the public about the science of orthopaedics. Founded at Northwestern University as a not-for-profit organization in 1933, the Academy has grown from a small organization serving less than 500 members to the world's largest medical association of musculoskeletal specialists. The Academy now serves about 24,000 members internationally.
- Rhonda Beck, NREMT-P has worked in public safety since 1985. Rhonda wrote the first edition AAOS textbook, Intermediate: Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, as well as the second edition, Advanced Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Second Edition. She has served as a contributor in various other publishing projects. She is a paramedic and EMT-intermediate and instructs in both of these areas; she also instructs in ACLS, ITLS, pediatric ITLS, PALS, and GEMS, and serves on the Georgia state committee for ITLS. She was a volunteer fire fighter for 9 years. Many of the emergency and injury photos in Intermediate: Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured and Advanced Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Second Edition have been taken by Rhonda during her work in the field.
Product Details
- Paperback: 1500 pages
- Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 2 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449600816
- ISBN-13: 978-1449600815
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 9 x 1.6 inches
List Price: $107.95