Self Instructional Workbook for Emergency Care

by J. David Bergeron

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893032352
• ISBN13: 9780893032357
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 487 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Great WORKBOOK for Self-Pacing, Self-Study

As a self-instructional text, this WORKBOOK is excellent. The advantage is self-pacing. Of course any self-instructional book demands more from the user.This WORKBOOK is designed to accompany the third edition textbook entitled __Emergency Care__, but I find that the WORKBOOK alone is valuable in its own right, even used without the textbook, since the WORKBOOK does contain a review of each area of emergency care and highlights the areas that might be missed on first reading of a textbook anyway!If you like programmed text format -- like I do -- you'll enjoy this one. Lots of multiple choice throughout and a Post Test at the end, with answers.Chapters include: The Emergency Medical Technician, Patient Assessment, The Airway & Pulmonary Resuscitation, Cardiopulminary Resuscitation, Breathing Aids & Oxygen, Bleeding & Shock, Soft Tissues & Internal Organs, The Extremities, The Skull-Spine-Chest, Medical Emergencies (Poisoning, Alcohol, Diabetic States, Convulsive Disorders, Respiratory Disorders, Communicable Diseases), Childbirth & Pediatrics, Environmental Emergencies (near-drowing, radiation, burns, heat-realted, cold, fallen through ice), Special Patients, Controlling the Scene, Disentanglement (wreckage), Moving & Transfering, Appndices (on anti-shock garments, esophageal obturator, IV therapy).Highly recommended for (1) those students and others getting into the field or planning a career as an emergency medical technician, (2) people who have been out of the field for a period and want a quick "refresher," (3) people who already have a good knowledge of basic first aid and want to advance it even more, (4) anybody who needs to practice written test-taking in this subject material, and (5) foreign students/non-native English learners (ESL/EFL) who will be studying in any medical field in an English-speaking country.