Description: Whether you're an emergency physician, paramedic, trainer, supervisor or administrator of prehospital emergency medicine, Paramedic Protocols provides you with valuable procedure protocols. This quick-reference guide is filled with protocols for the emergency care of adults and children, presented as written by 60 EMS systems throughout the United States. Refer to this one-of-a-kind text for flow charts, algorithms, diagrams, and written guidelines for protocol procedures; unique adult protocols, including treatment of non-traumatic cardiopulmonary arrest and traumatic emergencies; unique pediatric protocols, including management of pediatric respiratory emergencies; formulary of 49 drugs used by 60 EMS systems, to guide you in drug selection; paramedic protocols on how to perform 34 common procedures, including helmet removal and rapid sequence intubation; and EMS policies on 22 select paramedic topics. You can also rely on Paramedic Protocols for training examples to sharpen your emergency care skills...to adapt existing protocols for use in your EMS system or add them "as is" to expand the number of protocols available to the paramedics in your system.

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