Full Description
Addressing a significant deficiency in pre-hospital educational literature for health care workers, this unique text focuses solely on the pre-hospital care of the elder patient with illness or injury. Based on real-world cases, it provides material relevant to the work of the basic paramedic, and contains special sections on elder abuse, medical ethics, and living wills.
Contents
1. The Prehospital Provider and the Elder Patient. 2. Assessment of Ill or Injured Elder Patients. 3. Cardiovascular Disorders. 4. Pulmonary Disorders. 5. Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Emergencies. 6. Genitourinary Emergencies. 7. Neurologic Emergencies. 8. Endocrine Emergencies. 9. Toxicolgic Emergencies. 10. Environmental Emergencies. 11. Psychiatric and Behavioral Emergencies. 12. Head/Spinal Trauma. 13. Chest Trauma. 14. Abdominal and Pelvic Trauma. 15. Musculoskeletal Trauma. 16. Pharmacology for Prehospital Emergency Care. 17. Elder Abuse and Neglect. 18. Advance Directives in Medical Care. Index.
