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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Written exclusively for EMS physicians with everything you need to know for certification A Doody's Core Title for 2019! In 2010 the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) began certifying emergency physicians in the subspecialty of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Every EMS agency and system must have a physician available to provide medical direction of the service, in-the-moment consultation, and oversight of training and quality improvement. Whether they are working in the ambulance, on the streets, out in the wilderness, or in the skies, EMS physicians play a pivotal role as part of the EMS team. EMS Medicine is the most concise textbook written specifically for EMS physicians. While there are EMS books available for EMTs and EMS managers, only a fraction of their content covers what EMS physicians need to know. This well-written and concise textbook details current EMS physician practice and provides precisely the information you need to successfully prepare for board certification. It covers operations and oversight, legal issues, business practices, disaster preparation and response, special operations, field procedures, transportation issues, and more.… (more)
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CONTENTS:
Part I: Medical Oversight, Research and Quality Improvement
SECTION 1: EMS Physician Scope of Practice
CHAPTER 1: EMS Medicine as a Subspecialty
CHAPTER 2: Historical Aspects
CHAPTER 3: Training and Board Certification
SECTION 2: Medical Oversight
CHAPTER 4: Medical Control, Direction, and Oversight
CHAPTER 5: Protocols, Policies, and Guidelines
CHAPTER 6: Patient Safety and Continuous Quality Improvement
CHAPTER 7: Provider Education
CHAPTER 8: Controlled Substance Programs
CHAPTER 9: Community Relations and Public Health
CHAPTER 10: EMS Research
CHAPTER 11: Diversion, Bypass, and Offload Delay
SECTION 3: EMS Systems
CHAPTER 12: EMS System Design
CHAPTER 13: EMS Personnel
CHAPTER 14: Deployment, Posting, and Response Times
CHAPTER 15: Communications and Dispatching
CHAPTER 16: Interfacility Transport
CHAPTER 17: Rural EMS
CHAPTER 18: Air Medical Transport
CHAPTER 19: Emergency Management
CHAPTER 20: Community Paramedicine and Mobile Integrated Health Care
SECTION 4: Legal Considerations
CHAPTER 21: Legal Parameters of EMS
CHAPTER 22: Government Regulation of EMS
CHAPTER 23: Physician-Patient Relationships in EMS
CHAPTER 24: Capacity and Refusal of Care
SECTION 5: Business Practices and Management
CHAPTER 25: EMS Finance
CHAPTER 26: Measuring Performance
CHAPTER 27: Human Resources and Employee Relations
CHAPTER 28: Ethical Practices
Part II: Clinical Practice
SECTION 6: EMS Physician Field Operations
CHAPTER 29: Roles and Responsibilities in the Field
CHAPTER 30: Scene Safety and Size-Up
CHAPTER 31: Emergency Vehicles
CHAPTER 32: Physician Field Response
SECTION 7: Immediate Life-Threatening Events
CHAPTER 33: Cardiac Arrest
CHAPTER 34: Respiratory Failure and Anaphylaxis
CHAPTER 35: Shock and Hemorrhage
CHAPTER 36: Decreased Consciousness and Severe Agitation
CHAPTER 37: Drowning, Hypothermia, and Hyperthermia
SECTION 8: Medical Emergencies
CHAPTER 38: Neurological Emergencies
CHAPTER 39: Cardiovascular Emergencies
CHAPTER 40: Pulmonary Emergencies