Book Description

Emergency Medical Responder is an essential training program that fully meets the newly developed National Occupational Competency Profile for Emergency Medical Responders (NOCPs). This comprehensive text addresses the entire NOCPs with clarity and precision in a format that ensures student comprehension and encourages critical thinking. Concepts of team leadership and professionalism are woven throughout the chapters, challenging students to become compassionate, conscientious health care professionals as well as superior clinicians. Current, State-of-the-Art Medical Content Emergency Medical Responder includes in-depth coverage of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology to form an advanced understanding of the human body and disease processes expected of today’s emergency medical responder. Detailed, precise illustrations clearly depict the anatomy and processes covered in each chapter. Clear Approach to Patient Assessment and Management Emergency Medical Responder teaches and reinforces the concept of patient assessment, ensuring that students understand patient assessment as an integrated process—the way that providers actually practice it in the field. The steps of the patient assessment process are reinforced within the context of the illnesses or injuries discussed in the chapter. Illustrated skill drills highlight the critical steps of the patient management skills explained throughout the text. Dynamic Technology Solutions Access to Navigate online learning materials including an interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, sample course plans, and additional chapters covering: Rescue operations terrorism response, CBRNE, and hazardous materials events crime scene awareness Patients with special needs Acute interventions for chronic care patients Medical incident command