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Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets, Three Volume Set, Sixth Edition

Author(s): American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
Nancy L. Caroline
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763750886
  • ISBN-10:0763750883
  • Kit     pages      © 2008
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Overview

Think back to a time when paramedics didn’t exist. When “drivers” simply brought injured patients to the hospital. When the EMS industry was in its infancy. A time before Nancy Caroline.

Dr. Caroline’s work transformed EMS and the entire paramedic field. She created the first national standard curriculum for paramedic training in the United States. She also wrote the first paramedic textbook: Emergency Care in the Streets.

The impact that Dr. Caroline had on EMS and health care spanned across the U.S. and abroad. From establishing EMS systems to training paramedics, to providing better nourishment and health care for orphans, her work had a profound impact on humanity. Throughout her life, Dr. Caroline brought a sense of excitement, joy, and humor to her work.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is proud to continue Dr. Caroline’s legacy. Her sense of excitement and humor live on in this text, which is dedicated to her.

The Sixth Edition honors Dr. Caroline’s work with a clear, fun, understandable writing style for which she was known.

Welcome back a familiar training companion to your classroom! Say hello to Sidney Sinus, AV Abe, and a cast of memorable characters and amusing anecdotes. Make learning for your students more fun!

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Complete Medical Content

The Sixth Edition thoroughly covers the 1998 U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) EMT-Paramedic National Standard Curriculum and includes a wealth of enhancements to enrich Paramedic education.

Dynamic Features

The features found in the Sixth Edition will help your students to take the next step in becoming outstanding Paramedics. These features include:

  • Progressive case studies that lead the student through an emergency call from beginning to end
  • Practical, in-the-field advice
  • Notes from Nancy: Words of wisdom from Dr. Nancy Caroline
  • The only paramedic text to include cartoons—a testament to Dr. Caroline’s superb sense of humor!
  • Skill Drills with written step-by-step explanations and visual summaries of important skills and procedures
  • ALS Skills Review DVD

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Table of Contents

Volume I

Section 1 Preparatory
Chapter 1 Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 2 The Well-Being of the Paramedic
Chapter 3 Illness and Injury Prevention
Chapter 4 Medical and Legal Issues
Chapter 5 Ethical Issues
Chapter 6 Pathophysiology
Chapter 7 Pharmacology
Chapter 8 Vascular Access and Medication Administration
Chapter 9 Human Development
Chapter 10 Patient Communication

Section 2 Airway
Chapter 11 Airway

Section 3 Patient Assessment
Chapter 12 Patient History
Chapter 13 Physical Examination
Chapter 14 Patient Assessment
Chapter 15 Clinical Decisions
Chapter 16 Communications and Documentation

Medication Formulary
Glossary
Index


Volume II

Section 4  Trauma
Chapter 17 Trauma Systems and Mechanism of Injury
Chapter 18 Bleeding and Shock
Chapter 19 Soft-Tissue Injury
Chapter 20 Burns
Chapter 21 Head and Face Injuries
Chapter 22 Spine Injuries
Chapter 23 Thoracic Injuries
Chapter 24 Abdomen Injuries
Chapter 25 Musculoskeletal Injuries

Section 5 Medical
Chapter 26 Respiratory Emergencies
Chapter 27 Cardiovascular Emergencies
Chapter 28 Neurologic Emergencies
Chapter 29 Endocrine Emergencies
Chapter 30 Allergic Reactions
Chapter 31 Gastrointestinal Emergencies
Chapter 32 Renal and Urologic Emergencies
Chapter 33 Toxicology: Substance Abuse and Poisoning
Chapter 34 Blood Emergencies
Chapter 35 Environmental Emergencies
Chapter 36 Infectious and Communicable Diseases
Chapter 37 Behavioral Emergencies
Chapter 38 Gynecologic Emergencies
Chapter 39 Obstetrics

Glossary
Index

Volume III

Section 6 Special Considerations
Chapter 40 Neonatology
Chapter 41 Pediatrics
Chapter 42 Geriatrics
Chapter 43 Abuse
Chapter 44 Patients with Special Needs
Chapter 45 Acute Interventions for the Chronic Care Patient

Section 7 Operations
Chapter 46 Ambulance Operations
Chapter 47 Medical Incident Command
Chapter 48 Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Chapter 49 Rescue Awareness and Operations
Chapter 50 Hazardous Materials Incidents
Chapter 51 Crime Scene Awareness

Appendices
A  Cardiac Life Support Fundamentals
B  Assessment-Based Management

Glossary
Index


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American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) provides education and practice management services for orthopaedic surgeons and allied health professionals. The Academy also serves as an advocate for improved patient care and informs the public about the science of orthopaedics. Founded at Northwestern University as a not-for-profit organization in 1933, the Academy has grown from a small organization serving less than 500 members to the world's largest medical association of musculoskeletal specialists. The Academy now serves about 24,000 members internationally.

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Nancy L. Caroline

 

Nancy Lee Caroline was born in a Boston suburb to Leo and Zelda Caroline in 1944. Nancy had a strong social conscience and devoted her life to medicine, teaching, and her patients—and she had a superb sense of humor. She has often been rightly called the Mother of Paramedics because of her dedication to paramedic education. She died of multiple myeloma at age 58 in 2002.

Nancy’s medical career began at the young age of 15 in the pathology laboratory of the famous Benjamin Castleman, MD, at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she conducted medical research long before she entered college. Nancy majored in linguistics at Radcliffe College, and received her MD from Case Western Reserve University in 1977. Thereafter she took a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. It was here that she began her groundbreaking work in paramedicine.
Around that time, the late Peter Safar, MD, was overseeing a US Department of Transportation grant to create a curriculum for paramedics. Dr. Safar offered Nancy an opportunity, as medical director of Freedom House Enterprises Ambulance Service, to train paramedics chosen from a group of African-American men who did not have a chance to complete their high school educations. Nancy was extremely successful—so successful that she was asked to write a curriculum for paramedic training, a curriculum that was published as the first edition of Emergency Care in the Streets.
The list of Nancy’s other accomplishments is long. She served as the first medical director of Israel’s Red Cross society, Senior Medical Officer of the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), consultant for the League of Red Cross Societies, director of medical programs for the American Joint Distribution Committee in Addis Ababa, medical consultant for the Center for Educational Technology, and adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s medical school. She also performed significant volunteer work focused on humanitarian efforts, such as providing better nourishment and health care to orphans and founding a hospice program in Upper Galilee.
Nancy left the world too soon, but unquestionably left the world a better place.
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  • "All I can say is WOW!  This is one of the more comprehensive, yet user-friendly texts I've ever seen.  I thoroughly enjoy the 'Notes From Nancy' and 'Special Considerations boxes incorporated into each chapter.  The read is easy but not simple-that is, it does not 'dumb down' the pathophysiology material that all students and experienced medics need to know in an ever-changing profession.  Nancy has great photos and illustrations to used at the right places to reinforce each section. Please know that I will be letting everyone know what a find this text is!"

    Tim Duncan, RN CCRN CFRN EMTP/Flight Nurse
    St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center Life Flight
    Toledo, OH

    "After reviewing several chapters of this paramedic textbook, I am convinced that the writer’s style and the way material is presented is a fresh approach in the education of paramedic students. There is no doubt that students will find the reading easier and key points reinforced for easy recall. I found the material being presented wasn’t so technical that confusion set in and the book is an easy read with the antics of the author."

    John A. Kubincanek, EMT-P, AA, EMSI
    Cuyahoga Community College
    Ohio


    "The tone was very conversational, very appropriate and very much in the vein of the original Caroline texts (I trained under her manuals in 1980)."

    Daniel Carlascio, NREMTP, CCEMTP
    Loyola University Medical Center
    Maywood, Illinois


    "I love how you give different examples which help the students make connections between concepts and patients."

    Vicki May, MEd, LP
    Houston Community College
    Houston, Texas


    "I found the content to be exactly what a new paramedic needs and a great review for the seasoned paramedic."

    Lisa Starr, NREMT-P, EMS-I
    Southeast Community College
    Lincoln, Nebraska

    "The author presents the material in a detailed yet concise fashion. The material is presented in a good order and makes sense to the reader. The author builds a foundation and then expands on that throughout the chapter in a logical progression from basic principles to advanced concepts."

    Peter D. Eikenberry NREMT-P
    University of Maryland
    Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, ALS Division


    "After reading this chapter and comparing it to our current text I am going to recommend that we evaluate this text in our program. I feel that it is an easy read, has comprehensive content and challenges the student to understand the material presented."

    Ken Bullwinkle, RN, BSN, PHRN, CEN, CCRN
    Nursing Education Department
    Crozer-Chester Medical Center
    Upland, Pennsylvania


    "The reading level is right on the mark. It reads like a good novel with educational value rather than like a repair manual for the body…. It flows and the information is easily retained in this format. Many companies just cram as many facts and data as possible into a book, add the DOT objectives and call it a paramedic text. It is obvious the author took the time to write this text rather than just assemble the objectives on paper. Great job!"

    Matthew McQuisten
    Avera McKennan Hospital and University
    Sioux Falls, South Dakota

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      Instructor's Package

      ISBN-13: 9780763751753 ISBN-10: 0763751758

      This robust package contains everything needed to instruct a dynamic paramedic course. The CD-ROMs in the package contain:

      • Instructor’s Manual, providing you with creative ideas and tools to enhance your presentation. For each chapter, this indispensable manual contains:
        • Objectives with page references
        • Support materials
        • Enhancements
        • Teaching tips
        • Readings and preparation
        • Presentation overview with suggested teaching times
        • Lesson plans and corresponding PowerPoint slide text
        • Skill drill evaluation sheets
        • Answers to all end-of-chapter student questions found in the text
        • Activities and assignments
      • PowerPoint presentations, providing you with educational and engaging presentations. Following the content of the chapter, the slides also contain case studies and images throughout. The presentations can be modified and edited to meet your needs.
      • Lecture outlines, providing you with complete, ready-to-use lesson plans that outline all of the topics covered in the chapter. The lesson plans can be modified and edited to fit your course.
      • Image and table bank, providing you with many of the images and tables found in the text. You can use them to incorporate more images into the PowerPoint presentations, make handouts, or enlarge a specific image for further discussion.
      • Skill sheets, allowing you to track students’ skills and conduct skill proficiency exams.
      • National Registry Skill Sheets
      • Test bank, providing you with multiple-choice general knowledge and critical thinking questions, similar to those found on national certification exams. With the test bank, you can originate tailor-made classroom exams and quizzes quickly and easily by selecting, editing, organizing, and printing an exam along with an answer key, that includes page references to the text.

      The resources found in the Instructor’s Package have been formatted so that you can seamlessly integrate them into the most popular course administration tools. Please contact Jones and Bartlett Publishers technical support at any time with questions.

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      ISBN-13: 9780763760205
      The following instructor resources are available to qualified instructors for download
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      Student Workbook

      ISBN-13: 9780763744120 ISBN-10: 0763744123

      Dr. Caroline trained her paramedics to be well-rounded, compassionate, quick-thinking problem solvers. This workbook will help students become great paramedics!

      Critical thinking skills are further developed through:

      • Fun and engaging case studies
      • ECG Interpretation exercises
      • “What Would You Do?” scenarios

      Comprehension of the course material is aided through:

      • Skill drill activities 
      • Anatomy labeling exercises
      • Medical vocabulary building exercises

      Fun is ensured with these activities:

      • Crossword puzzles
      • Secret messages
      • Word finds

      The Workbook comes complete with an answer key and page references for further study.

       

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