Prehospital Care - Pearls & Pitfalls -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Section I: EMS-Overview, Design, and Operations -- 1: History of Emergency Medical Services -- 2: EMS System Design -- 3: The Prehospital Environment -- 4: Prehospital Communications -- 5: Destination Guidelines and Hospital Designation -- 6: Documentation -- 7: Medicolegal Issues -- 8: Emergency Vehicle Operation -- 9: Public and Media Relations -- 10: Ethics in EMS -- Section II: Medical Direction -- 11: Medical Direction - Overview -- 12: On-Line Medical Direction -- 13: Off-Line Medical Direction -- 14: Continuous Quality Improvement -- Section III: Personal Safety and Wellness -- 15: Well-Being of the EMS Provider -- 16: Scene Safety -- 17: Infectious Diseases Exposures -- 18: Critical Incident Stress -- Section IV: Disasters, Mass Casualty Incidents, and Mass Gatherings -- 19: Incident Management -- 20: Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents -- 21: Small-Scale Multiple Casualty Incidents -- 22: Weapons of Mass Destruction - Chemical -- 23: Biological Terrorism -- 24: Weapons of Mass Destruction - Radiologic -- 25: Weapons of Mass Destruction - Explosives -- 26: Mass Gatherings -- Section V: Clinical Care -- 27: Decision Making and Critical Interpretation of Vital Signs -- 28: The Prehospital Patient Assessment -- 29: Electrocardiogram Interpretation -- 30: Cardiac Dysrhythmias -- 31: Cardiac Arrest -- 32: Overview of Shock -- 33: Chest Pain -- 34: Acute Coronary Syndrome -- 35: Altered Mental Status -- 36: Acute Neurologic Emergencies -- 37: Hypertensive Emergencies -- 38: Seizures -- 39: Fever -- 40: Abdominal Pain -- 41: Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage -- 42: Vomiting and Diarrhea -- 43: Dyspnea -- 44: Extremity Pain and Trauma -- 45: Overdose and Poisoning -- 46: Hypothermia and Frostbite -- 47: Heat Illness -- 48: Altitude Illness.

49: Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies -- 50: Allergy and Anaphylaxis -- 51: Diabetic Emergencies -- 52: Psychiatric and Behavioral Emergencies -- 53: Management of the Violent Patient -- 54: General Trauma Principles -- 55: Head Trauma -- 56: Spinal Cord Injuries -- 57: Neck Trauma -- 58: Thoracic Trauma -- 59: Abdominal Trauma -- 60: Pelvic Trauma -- 61: Interpersonal Violence -- 62: Thermal Burns -- Section VI: Pediatrics -- 63: Assessment of the Pediatric Patient -- 64: Field Approach to Infants and Children -- 65: Seizures in Children -- 66: Respiratory Distress in Infants and Children -- 67: Pediatric Trauma -- 68: Child Abuse and Nonaccidental Trauma -- Section VII: Special Situations -- 69: Water Emergencies -- 70: Decompression Illnesses -- 71: Wilderness Emergency Medical Services -- 72: Lightning -- 73: Bites, Stings, and Envenomations -- 74: Tactical Emergency Medicine -- 75: Hazardous Materials -- 76: Technical Rescues -- Section VIII: Aeromedical Transport -- 77: Air Medical System Design and Configuration -- 78: Aeromedical Transportation: Physiology of Altitude -- Section IX: Prehospital Skills and Interventions -- 79: Prehospital Interventions: What Really Works -- 80: Intravenous Access -- 81: Prehospital Airway Management -- 82: Pharmacologic Agents in Airway Management -- 83: PASG -- 84: Needle Decompression -- 85: Immobilization and Splinting -- 86: Prehospital Pain Management -- 87: Ultrasound in the Field -- Index.