EMS Response to Patients with Special Needs: Assessment, Treatment, and Transport

By Katherine Koch

Katherine Koch provides descriptions of a specific disability or disabilities and how the characteristics are relevant to a prehospital setting and to the paramedics and emergency medical technicians who are treating the patients. Features and Benefits: General suggestions for working with people with disabilities, such as person-first language, wheelchair etiquette, and interacting with service animals, Suggestions for assessment and treatment are specific to EMS The disabilities discussed in this text include: Autism spectrum disorders, Causes and capacities of intellectual disabilities such as pain and Down syndrome, Hearing, vision and speech impairments, Physical disabilities such as arthritis, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury, Mental health disorders such as ADHD, anxiety, and schizophrenia, Traumatic brain injury, Alcohol use disorder, Cystic fibrosis, PANDAS/PANS, Rett Syndrome, Sickle cell disease, Systemic lupus erythematosus Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593704984
• ISBN13: 9781593704988
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Fire Engineering Books
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"