Bøger af Paula Derr

Designed for both beginning and experienced EMTs, the EMS Field Guide, BLS Version is the ideal quick reference. Now in its Tenth Edition, this field guide has been an essential resource for EMS professionals for over a decade. Whether you're a student or a 20-year veteran of emergency medical services, this guide gives you immediate access to vital information needed to perform your job. The Tenth Edition includes the following: - Revised and updated content to reflect the most current guidelines and medication dosage recommendations - More detailed ECG analyses illustrations - New content on I-gel supraglottic airway - Enhanced information on noninvasive ventilation - Updated content on pediatric medications to reflect best practice recommendations - Completely revised Emergency Medications chapter to include dozens of new medications and pediatric dosing - New content on Ebola, monkeypox, and COVID-19 - Completely revised trauma triage algorithm to reflect 2022 recommendations - Completely revised Poisoning chapter, adding GHB, beta-blocker overdose, calcium channel blocker overdose, Jimson weed, khat, LSD, and mushrooms - Completely revised Prescription Drugs chapter to reflect hundreds of new brand-name and generic drugs In addition, this field guide includes all other charts and references that EMTs and AEMTs need ready access to in the field: APGAR, pediatric vital signs, stroke scales, GCS (infant, child, and adult), pupil chart, CDC Trauma Triage, O2 tank capacities, prescription drugs, abbreviations, spell checker, phone numbers, Spanish translations, and metric conversions. The EMS Field Guide, BLS Version is the only field guide that addresses the needs of both EMTs and AEMTs under the new EMS Scope of Practice model. Just as with all Informed Publishing print products, this field guide is 3x5, fits easily in your pocket, has color-coded tabs, and is durable. This is the resource you'll use in class and take with you throughout your career.

The original EMS field guide has grown into the most used reference guide in EMS history, the one that EMS Magazine calls "the original and still the best." The Twenty-First Edition of the EMS Field Guide, ALS Version makes it easy for paramedics, nurses, and physicians to look up their patients' medications, check drug doses, quickly interpret 12-Lead ECGs, and much more! New in the 21st edition: - Revised and updated content to reflect the most current guidelines and medication dosage recommendations - More detailed ECG analyses illustrations - New content on I-gel supraglottic airway - Enhanced information on noninvasive ventilation - Updated content on pediatric medications to reflect best practice recommendations - Completely revised Emergency Medications chapter to include dozens of new medications and pediatric dosing - New content on Ebola, monkeypox, and COVID-19 - Completely revised trauma triage algorithm to reflect 2022 recommendations - Completely revised Poisoning chapter, adding GHB, beta-blocker overdose, calcium channel blocker overdose, Jimson weed, khat, LSD, and mushrooms - Completely revised Prescription Drugs chapter to reflect hundreds of new brand-name and generic drugs Like all of our Informed field guides, this is a resource you'll use in class and take with you throughout your career in the field. All Informed professional field guides are 3x5, fit easily in your pocket, have color-coded tabs, and are water-resistant, alcohol-fast, and durable.

Now in its ninth edition, the Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide is an indispensable resource for physicians, nurses, and paramedics. Thoroughly reviewed and updated by emergency medicine experts Paula Derr and Michael McEvoy, it consolidates critical information from desk references into a convenient 3" x 5" pocket-size format that emergency professionals can take anywhere. The Ninth Edition includes the following updates: - Revised and updated content to reflect the most current guideline and medication dosage recommendations- New sections on troubleshooting ICDs, Mechanical Circulatory Support, resuscitation team dynamics, and vascular access devices- Enhanced information on pacemakers- New content on I-gel supraglottic airway- Enhanced information on noninvasive ventilation- New details on neuromonitoring- Updated content on pediatric medications to reflect best practice recommendations- Completely revised Emergency Medications chapter to include dozens of new medications and pediatric dosing- New content on Ebola, monkeypox, and COVID-19- Completely revised trauma triage algorithm to reflect 2022 recommendations- Completely revised Poisoning chapter, adding GHB, beta-blocker overdose, calcium channel blocker overdose, Jimson weed, khat, LSD, and mushrooms- Updated Lab Values chapter to include procalcitonin, C-reactive protein, high-sensitivity troponin, BNP, and D-dimer values and interpretation- Completely revised Prescription Drugs chapter to reflect hundreds of brand-name and generic drugs

This is the most popular pocket reference in emergency nursing. The Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide has been an essential resource for physicians, paramedics, and nurses for over a decade. The Pocket Guide consolidates critical information found in desk references into a convenient 3"x5" pocket-size format that is handy enough to take with you anywhere. The Revised Eighth Edition features: - Updated to align with the 2020 CPR and ECC Guidelines- Updated information on poisons and emergency medications- New ECG rhythm strips- Common drugs sections- Updated pediatric medications- Revised Spanish section- Straightforward medical emergency treatments