EMS Field Guide - Critical Care Transport Field Guide

This pocket sized, water resistant guide is designed with the special needs of practitioners in mind, and is a handy quick reference guide.

Author(s): UMBC
ISBN: 0763715808
Cover: Paperback/spiral
Pages: 133
Published: 2002

The Critical Care Transport Field Guide is designed with the special needs of field practitioners in mind. This useful, quick reference guide helps speed recognition of lab values, 12 lead ECG interpretation, fibrinolytics agents, hemodynamic monitoring, IABPs, rapid sequence intubation, chest tubes, and therapeutic medications and toxicology for the critical care transport provider. This guide is pocket size and water resistant.

Table of Contents:
1. Common Lab Panels And Tests
2. Normal Lab Values
3. Spinal Regions And Dermatome Areas
4. 12-Lead EKG
5. Thrombolytic Agents For Ami Pacemakers
6. Blood Administration
7. Hemodynamic Monitoring & Central Venous Catheters
8. Swan-Ganz Monitoring
9. Intra-Aortic Ballon Pumps
10. Bronchodilators
11. Ventilation
12. Nasogastric Tubes And Feeding Tubes
13. Chest Tubes & Drainage Systems
14. Rapid Sequence Induction
15. Conscious Sedation
16. Measurements
17. Conversions And Severity Indices
18. Formulas
19. Critical Care IV
20. Medications
21. Therapeutic Drug Therapies & Toxicology
22. Hypothermia Scale
23. Paediatric Medications Reference
24. Burn Management
25. Emergency Medicine Mnemonics & Other Jewels
26. Drug Compatibility Matrix