EMS Street Strategies
Focuses on the Interaction of EMS Personnel with Patients, Family Members and Bystanders in an Array of Common Medical, Traumatic and Psychological Emergencies

Second Edition
Stephen M. Soreff, MD, Robert T. Cadigan, PhD

EMS Street Strategies focuses on the interaction of EMS personnel with patients, their families and bystanders in an array of common medical, traumatic and psychological emergencies.

Chapters feature real life case studies and offer detailed six-step intervention strategies based on the presented scenario that EMS professionals can apply to their day-to-day activities in the field.

Also includes chapters on the stresses experienced by EMS personnel and methods for combating this stress in a productive and healthy manner.

Features:

Newly updated edition includes new chapters on care of the elderly and how to be an EMS professional is this era of diversity
Attempts to analyze the emotions and behaviors of both patient and care giver within the context of an emergency situation
Includes pertinent review questions, exercises and additional resources.

Contents:

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Cardiac Emergency: The Heart of the Matter
Chapter 3 The Elderly: Handle with Care
Chapter 4 AIDS: A Fatal Virus
Chapter 5 Trauma: More than Physical Injury
Chapter 6 Rape: Hidden Injuries
Chapter 7 The Brutalized Child: Family in Despair
Chapter 8 The Potentially Violent Patient: Anxiety, Ambivalence, and Aggression
Chapter 9 Depression and Suicide: A Semester in Hell
Chapter 10 Alcohol Abuse: Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams
Chapter 11 The Unwanted: Deinstitutionalization, Detoxification, and Dereliction of Duty
Chapter 12 Provocative Patients: The Sexy, the Suit Conscious, and the Somatizing
Chapter 13 Responding to All People: EMS in the Era of Diversity
Chapter 14 Death in the Ambulance: Grief and Guilt
Chapter 15 Multiple Casualty Incident: The Demands, Destruction, and Disorientation
Chapter 16 Street and System Stresses: Recognition is the Key
Chapter 17 EMS Wellness: Things You Can do Before Hand so You Can Handle Stress Better

256 Pages - 6 x 9 in.

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