Avoiding Common Prehospital Errors
- ISBN-10
- 1451131593
- ISBN-13
- 9781451131598
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 440
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-21
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Authors
- Corey M. Slovis, Paul E. Pepe
Description
Avoiding Common Prehospital Errors, will help you develop the deep understanding of common patient presentations necessary to prevent diagnostic and treatment errors and to improve outcomes. Providing effective emergency care in the field is among the most challenging tasks in medicine. You must be able to make clinically vital decisions quickly, and perform a wide range of procedures, often under volatile conditions.Written specifically for the prehospital emergency team, this essential volume in the Avoiding Common Errors Series combines evidence-based practice with well-earned experience and best practices opinion to help you avoid common errors of prehospital care.Look inside and discover...* Concise descriptions of each error are followed by insightful analysis of the "hows" and "whys" underlying the mistake, and clear descriptions of ways to avoid such errors in the future.* "Pearls" highlighted in the text offer quick vital tips on error avoidance based on years of clinical and field experience.* Focused content emphasizes "high impact" areas of prehospital medicine, including airway management, cardiac arrest, and respiratory and traumatic emergencies.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Emergency Pathophysiology: Clinical Applications for Prehospital Care
By Samuel M. GalvagnoThe book is tailored specifically to the curriculum for EMT training.
-
The ECG in Prehospital Emergency Care
By William J. Brady, Korin B. Hudson, Robin NaplesThis book exclusively addresses ECGs for prehospital emergencies, ranging from basic rhythm diagnosis to critical care applications of the electrocardiogram and advanced 12-lead ECG interpretation in the ACS patient.
-
If You Didn't Write It Down, It Never Happened!: Developing Critical EMS Reporting Skills for Paramedics and EMTs
By Paul SerinoAfter reading this book, you will never again take your EMS documentation for granted.
-
Governance Ethics in Healthcare Organizations
By Gerard Magill, Lawrence PrybilThis book is an important read for all those interested in healthcare management, corporate governance and healthcare ethics, including academics, students and practitioners.
-
Capnography, King of the ABC's: A Systematic Approach for Paramedics
By Troy ValenteWRITTEN BY A PARAMEDIC FOR PARAMEDICS, THIS TEXT IS AN ALL INCLUSIVE LOOK INTO EVERY FACET OF CAPNOGRAPHY AS IT RELATES TO PREHOSPITAL PATIENT CARE.
-
Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department
By Amal Mattu, Arjun S. Chanmugam, Stuart P. SwadronTownsend CM Jr, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, et al., eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 18th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; 2008:ch 73. James E. Corwin, MD Scenario A 32-year-old female presents with. Chapter 393 911.
-
Life and Death Matters: Professionalism and Decision-Making for the First Responder, How Paramedics Act Decisively in the Chaos of Prehospital...
By Samuel Adams, Christian AdamsA look at the integrated approach for the first responder.
-
Law Enforcement Responder
By Aaos, Dwight A. Polk, Geoff ShapiroImportant Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
-
En Route: A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death and Everything in Between
By Steven Kelly GraysonSteven "Kelly" Grayson has seen the best of us at our worst.
-
The Emergency Mind: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure
By MD PhD, Dan DworkisIn The Emergency Mind: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure, Dan Dworkis, MD PhD takes you into the minds of the doctors who run resuscitation rooms and treat the ill and injured to teach you how to perform when the pressure is ...