EMS. A Practical Global Guidebook

Description

EMS: A Practical Global Guidebook is the first international resource for EMS services edited by an international team of experts.

The World Health Organization recognizes that each year more than 100 million people worldwide sustain injuries, that more than five million people die from violence and injury, and that 90% of the global burden of violence and injury mortality occurs in low- and middle-income countries.

The WHO also recognizes that improved organization and planning for provision of trauma and emergency care is an essential part of integrated health-care delivery that it plays an important role in preparedness for, and response to, mass-casualty incidents. EMS organization and planning lowers mortality, reduces disability, and prevents other adverse health outcomes arising from the burden of everyday injuries.

In response to a growing need for coordination and communication across nations and cultures, this book is designed to help the Global EMS community come together to establish and develop coordinated components of global and national EMS systems.

Key Features

• International editorial and author team
• Highly illustrated with four-color illustrations and photographs
• Extensive, descriptive procedures section
• Website with updated content and links to videos
• First International resource for EMS physicians, paramedics, EMTs, and health policymakers. Comprehensive in theory and in practice.
• Chapters written by world authorities in prehospital care, with narratives describing the challenges to EMS development around the world
• Global focus to EMS organization to match unique needs and environments

CONTENTS

PART 1 FOUNDATIONS

• CHAPTER 1
  Standard EMS Terms and Definitions
• CHAPTER 2
  International EMS Development
• CHAPTER 3
  Historical Timeline of International Events
• CHAPTER 4
  Structures of Different National
  EMS Systems
• CHAPTER 5
  EMS Interactions with
  Governments
• CHAPTER 6
  EMS and Public Services: Lessons
  Learned in Lebanon
• CHAPTER 7
  EMS Role in Public Health and
  Public Education
• CHAPTER 8
  EMS Research

PART 2 BASICS OF ORGANIZATION

• CHAPTER 9
  First Responders and Bystanders
• CHAPTER 10
  Staffing of Ambulances
• CHAPTER 11
  EMS Medical Directors
• CHAPTER 12
  Training Programs and Standardized Curricula
• APPENDIX 1
  An EMS-Specific Syllabus
• APPENDIX 2
  Example of History and Examination
  Section Taken from an EMS-Specific
  Curriculum
• APPENDIX 3
  Example of Core Module Taken from
  Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Masters of Science for Prehospital and Emergency Care
• CHAPTER 13
  EMS Health, Safety, and Wellness Issues
• CHAPTER 14
  Dispatch and Communication Systems
• CHAPTER 15
  Patient Data Records and Patient Handover
• CHAPTER 16
  Development of an EMS Quality
  Improvement Program
• CHAPTER 17
  EMS Vehicles
• CHAPTER 18
  Ambulance Station Design
• CHAPTER 19
  EMS Equipment
• CHAPTER 20
  Financing of EMS Systems and Cost-Effectiveness

PART 3 PROTOCOLS AND PROCEDURES

• CHAPTER 21EMS Clinical Care Protocols
• APPENDIX 1Example of a Protocol for Body Substance
  Isoolation Guidelines
• CHAPTER 22
  Airway Management
• CHAPTER 23
  Parenteral Access: IV, IO, IM,
  Rectal, Nasal
• CHAPTER 24
  Cardiac Defibrillation and External Pacing
• CHAPTER 25
  Therapeutic Hypothermia After Outof-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
• CHAPTER 26
  ECG Interpretation
• CHAPTER 27
  Prehospital Fibrinolysis
• CHAPTER 28
  Prehospital Stroke Assessment
• CHAPTER 29
  Helmet Removal
• CHAPTER 30
  Spinal Immobilization
• CHAPTER 31
  Stabilization of Pelvic Fractures
• CHAPTER 32
  Extremity Splinting and Care of Open Fractures
• CHAPTER 33
  Pulseless Extremity
• CHAPTER 34
  Impaled Objects
• CHAPTER 35
  Hemorrhage Control
• CHAPTER 36
  Eye Injuries
• CHAPTER 37
  Burns
• CHAPTER 38
  Snake Bites
• CHAPTER 39
  Prehospital Pain Management
• CHAPTER 40
  Obstetrics and Gynecology
• CHAPTER 41
  Pediatric Procedures
• CHAPTER 42
  Trauma Assessment

PART 4 SPECIAL SITUATIONS

• CHAPTER 43
  Pediatric Care in EMS
• CHAPTER 44
  EMS Violence
• CHAPTER 45
  EMS in Rural and Wilderness Areas
• CHAPTER 46
  Military EMS Systems
• CHAPTER 47
  Disasters and HazMat
• CHAPTER 48
  Tactical EMS Medicine
• CHAPTER 49
  Aeromedical Programs

APPENDIX
Web Links and Resources

Index

Authors

Judith E. Tintinalli, MD, MS
Department of Emergency Medicine,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Medicine,
School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

Peter Cameron MBBS, MD, FACEM
Monash University
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Academic Director of the Emergency and Trauma Centre, The Alfred Hospital,
Head of the Prehospital, Emergency and Trauma Group and Associate Director of the National Trauma Research Institute

James Holliman, M.D.
Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University
Program Manager, Afghanistan Healthcare Sector Reachback Project; Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences