EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES : Intermediate (Book with DVD) (Workbook Included)

Emergency Medical Services: Intermediate combines many different practical and visual skills with knowledge of specialized materials and techniques. Emergency medical services also known as Ambulance service or Paramedic Service are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care, transport to definitive care, and other medical transport to patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent the patient from transporting themselves. This book will introduce the knowledge and skills for those studying and/or working medical service industry.

About this Book

The information in this book consists of competencies that a person must achieve to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation with automated external defibrillation operation, maintain life support equipment and resources, implement safe access and extrication procedures in an emergency, contribute in receiving request for ambulance service, contribute in allocating ambulance service resources, contribute in coordinating emergency resources, deliver basic ambulance communication skills, contribute in on – road operations, contribute to emergency scene management, contribute to special event scene management, contribute to routine scene management, deliver pre- hospital patient care, contribute to ambulance operations management, transport emergency patients, transport non- emergency patients and drive ambulance under operational conditions.

About the Emergency Medical Services Industry

The goal of most emergency medical services is to either provide treatment to those in need of urgent medical care, with the goal of satisfactorily treating the presenting conditions, or arranging for timely removal of the patient to the next point of definitive care. This is most likely an emergency department at a hospital. The term emergency medical service evolved to reflect a change from a simple system of ambulances providing only transportation, to a system in which preliminary medical care is given on scene and during transport. In some developing regions, the term is not used, or may be used inaccurately, since the service in question does not provide treatment to the patients, but only the provision of transport to the point of care. Emergency medical services (EMS) workers serve on the front lines of emergency medical care. Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics respond to emergencies, from someone who may be having a heart attack in her home to multi-vehicle accidents on the highway. EMTs are most frequently found in ambulances but some may provide care for patients being transported by air as well. They provide first-line medical or emergency care for sick and injured people at the scene, which may be in the person’s home, at an accident site or other places and while they are being transported to the hospital for care. They typically operate in teams with one person serving as an emergency vehicle operator while the other continues to provide life-saving emergency care to the patient en route to a medical facility. According the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment for EMTs and paramedics is expected to grow 23 percent from 2012 to 2022, much faster than most other careers.