Law Enforcement Responder
Principles of Emergency Medicine, Rescue, and Force Protection

Author(s):	Randy G. Stair Dwight A. Polk, MSW, NREMT-P, Paramedic Program Director, University of Maryland Baltimore County Geoff Shapiro Nelson Tang
Details:	ISBN-13: 9780763781491 Paperback 450 pages © 2013 Will Publish: 4/15/2012
Price:	International Sales $91.95 US List Training Site Discount Add to Cart Request a Review Copy

Overview

The Basics of Law Enforcement Emergency Response

Law Enforcement Responder: Principles of Emergency Medicine, Rescue, and Force Protection prepares homeland security officials, law enforcement officers, agents, and public safety officials for the wide range of emergency response needs they face on a daily basis. The text addresses all of the competency statements in the National EMS Education Standards at the Emergency Medical Responder level, as well as additional content specific to law enforcement that exceeds the core curriculum.

Because police officers, fire fighters, soldiers, security officers, and other public safety workers face greater threats today than ever before, the traditional role of law enforcement has expanded to require broad-based emergency response capabilities. Law Enforcement Responder explores the wide range of law enforcement demands and emergency response needs, including resuscitation, trauma, and illness, as well as the necessary considerations for special populations including children and the elderly.

This mission-critical text takes into account the significant diversity in the law enforcement community and provides sound, basic emergency medicine preparation in a flexible format. Law enforcement topics written by nationally recognized experts include canine first aid, military medicine, police officer survival, executive protection, active shooter, travel medicine, in-flight emergencies, fire-rescue and hazardous materials, ordnance ballistics, less lethal weapons, incarceration and prisoner care, and more.

ShowKey Features

Outstanding features include:

Lesson objectives: National EMS Education Standard competency statements and additional chapter-specific objectives, with corresponding page references.
Skill Drills: Written step-by-step explanations and visual summaries of key skills in a format that enhances student comprehension.
Vital Vocabulary: Key terms highlighted and explained within the chapter and defined in the Prep Kit.
Prep Kit: End-of-chapter materials and activities reinforce important concepts and evaluate students’ mastery of the subjects.
- Ready for Review: Detailed summaries of the chapter content.
- Vital Vocabulary: Definitions for all key terms used in the chapter.
- Check Your Knowledge: Case studies that promote critical thinking.

ShowTable of Contents

Section  1  Law Enforcement Medical Responder
  Unit  1  Law Enforcement Medicine
    The Law Enforcement Responder
    Emergency Medical Services Systems
    Mission Preplanning
    Logistics
  Unit  2  Medical Standards and Responsibilities
    Physical Direction and Oversight
    Documentation
    Ethical and Legal Considerations
    Forensics
  Unit  3  Mental and Physical Wellness
  Unit  4  Line of Duty Death
Section  2  Emergency Response
  Unit  5  Scene Management
  Unit  6  Environmental Hazards
    Fire Suppression
    Hazardous Materials Accidents and Weapons
    Narcotics and Clandestine Labs
  Unit  7  Rescue
    Auto Extrication
    Water Rescue
Section  3  Patient Assessment
  Unit  8  Anatomy and Physiology
  Unit  9  Physical Examination and Assessment
Section  4  Resuscitation
  Unit  10  Airway, Breathing, and Oxygenation
  Unit  11  CPR and AED
Section  5  Illness
  Unit  12  Clinical Fundamentals
    Pathophysiology
    Pharmacology
  Unit  13  Medical Emergencies
    General Medical Emergencies
    Specific Medical Emergencies
  Unit  14  Toxicology
  Unit  15  Environmental Threats
    Heat and Cold Exposure
    High Altitude Sickness
Section  6  Trauma
  Unit  16  Bleeding and Shock
  Unit  17  Tactical Casualty Care
  Unit  18  Law Enforcement Considerations
    Ordnance Ballistics
    Explosions and Blasts
    Less Lethal Munitions
  Unit  19  Conventional Trauma
    Injuries and Wounds
    Head, Neck, and Sensory Injuries
    Chest and Abdominal Trauma
Section  7  Special Populations
  Unit  20  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Unit  21  Infants and Children
  Unit  22  Elderly Patients
  Unit  23  Behavioral Emergencies
  Unit  24  K-9 First Aid
  Unit  25  Incarceration and Prisoner Care
Section  8  Operational Considerations
  Unit  26  Deployment Preparation
    Travel and Foreign Missions
    In-Flight Emergencies
    Maritime Deployments
  Unit  27  Special Missions and Responses
    Special Operations and Tactics
    Executive Protection
    Active Shooter Scenarios
    Animal Threats and Control
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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Randy G. Stair

Randy Stair is currently the Supervisory Emergency Services Specialist for the United States Secret Service. Mr. Stair has been with the Secret Service since 1999. Mr. Stair started his fire, rescue and paramedical career in 1980 with Pleasant Valley Community Fire Company, Inc., Carroll County Maryland. He has had the opportunity to provide emergency services for West Friendship in Howard County Maryland as well as the Baltimore County Fire Department. Mr. Stair has had considerable success in establishing EMS training programs. He has assisted many jurisdictions by providing paramedic training programs throughout Maryland. He primarily developed and implemented the EMS training programs for the Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association and the Baltimore County Fire-Rescue Academy.

Mr. Stair has a dual career, also practicing as a Critical Care RN since 1985. Mr. Stair has practiced clinically at the Baltimore Regional Burn Center and the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. In 1990 Mr. Stair was intimately involved in developing the first Critical Care Transport program in Maryland at the Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Stair became a consultant for Critical Care Transport nursing and worked to establish and operate other critical care ground and rotary wing transport programs, including Maryland Express Care, at University of Maryland.

In the 1990s Mr. Stair developed and implemented several EMS and rescue training courses to support federal law enforcement, local and state police in Maryland. He has been and remains actively involved in the development of the Maryland EMS system. He volunteers as the Director of the Paramedic Program at Carroll Community College. He is an alumni of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, the Johns Hopkins University and is currently a graduate student at the United States Naval War College.

Dwight A. Polk, MSW, NREMT-P-Paramedic Program Director, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Involved in EMS since 1975, and a paramedic since 1982, Dwight Polk is currently a volunteer paramedic in Maryland. He has held the position of Paramedic Program Director at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) since 1990. Prior to arriving at UMBC, Mr. Polk was a field paramedic and Education Coordinator at Acadian Ambulance Service in Lafayette , Louisiana.

In 1996, Mr. Polk completed his Master’s Degree in Occupational Social Work at UMBC; specializing in Employee Assistance Programs. As part of his clinical Master’s Degree, Mr. Polk participated in two specialized internships: first, providing psychotherapy to patients with head injuries at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore; and second, in an employee assistance program at the National Security Agency (NSA).

After receiving licensure as a social worker in the State of Maryland, Mr. Polk became active in the field of Critical Incident Stress, while studying under the mentorship of Jeffrey Mitchell, PhD, President Emeritus of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. Mr. Polk is still an active mental health professional for two CISM teams in the Baltimore area, and is a Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) instructor for the Howard County (MD) Mental Health Authority and Howard County Police Department.

Since February of 2005, Mr. Polk has held a contractual position as a mobile crisis team (MCT) member for the Grassroots Crisis Center in Columbia, Maryland. As an MCT member, he responds to various scenes to conduct crisis intervention for individuals and families, or psychiatric evaluations for emergency petition (72 hour emergency commitment).

Additional Titles by this Author

Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response
ISBN-13: 9780763751203

Geoff Shapiro

Geoff Shapiro is the Operational Medicine Programs Coordinator for The George Washington University, Emergency Health Services Program. He has been involved in EMS since 1993, and for 11 years was a lead emergency medicine instructor at a premier federal law enforcement agency training center located in the Washington, DC area. Recently, Geoff has worked with various military special operations forces providing tactical combat casualty care and emergency medicine courses, as well as continues to provide education and training to various police departments, fire departments, EMS agencies, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students at GW. He is also a contributing author and reviewer of EMS textbooks, and presents at local, national, and international conferences.

Nelson Tang