Introduction: critical thinking in patient management -- Case Study 1. Abdominal pain in a twenty-eight-year-old male -- Case Study 2. Altered level of consciousness in a young woman -- Case Study 3. Motor vehicle accident with multiple patients -- Case Study 4. Environmental exposure in two teenage boys -- Case Study 5. Weakness and lethargy in an elderly female -- Case Study 6. Altered level of consciousness in a construction worker -- Case Study 7. Headache and malaise in an expectant mother -- Case Study 8. Teenager in severe respiratory distress -- Case Study 9. Sixty-six-year-old female with shortness of breath -- Case Study 10. Forty-eight-year-old male collapsed -- Case Study 11. Dyspnea and chest pain in an elderly female -- Case Study 12. Young man with accidental thermal burns -- Case Study 13. Child with bradycardia and respiratory distress -- Case Study 14. Twenty-six-year-old with traumatic chest injuries -- Case Study 15. Chest pain in a fifty-six-year-old male -- Case Study 16. Forty-three-year-old man in convulsions -- Case Study 17. Six-year-old in acute respiratory distress -- Case Study 18. Multiple shooting, victims unknown.
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Provides the reader (EMT) with up-to-date knowledge by combining medical pathologies with actual case histories, and tests the reader's knowledge base and reasoning ability through critical thinking and a problem-solving approach.
9-1-1
911, responding for life
Nine one one
Emergency medical services-- Study and teaching.
Emergency medical technicians, Examinations, questions, etc.
Emergency medicine, Examinations, questions, etc.
Medical emergencies, Case studies.
Emergency Medical Services-- case reports.
Emergency Medical Technicians-- examination questions.