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| About This Book | |
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| A Note from Our Author | |
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| About Our Author | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Preparing for success on the NREMT Certification Exam | |
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| Preparing To Become An Emt | |
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| The Emergency Medical Services System: History, Public Health, and the EMT's Role | |
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| EMT Safety and Wellness/Lifting and Moving/Patient Restraint | |
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| Medical, Legal, and Ethical issues, and EMS Research | |
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| Communications | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Anatomy and Physiology/Medical Terminology | |
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| Life span Development | |
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| Airway, Pharmacology, and Patient Assessment | |
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| Airway, Respiration, and Artificial ventilation | |
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| History Taking, vital Signs, and Monitoring Devices | |
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| Pharmacology | |
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| Patient Assessment | |
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| Shock, Resuscitation And Medical Emergencies | |
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| Shock, Resuscitaion, and AED | |
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| Respiratory Emergencies | |
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| Cardiac Emergencies | |
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| Neurologic Emergencies and Syncope | |
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| Diabetic Emergencies | |
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| Anaphylaxis | |
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| Toxicology | |
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| Abdominal, Gynecologic, and Genitourinary/Renal Emergencies | |
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| Behavioral Emergencies | |
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| Trauma And Environmental Emergencies | |
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| Kinematics of trauma, Trauma Triage | |
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| Bleeding and Soft Tissue Injuries | |
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| Burn Injuries | |
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| Musculoskeletal Injuries | |
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| Head and Spinal Injuries | |
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| Chest and Abdominal trauma | |
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| Eye, Face, and Neck Trauma | |
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| Environmental Emergencies | |
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| special patient Populations | |
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| Childbirth, Obstetrical Emergencies, Newborn Care | |
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| Pediatric Emergencies | |
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| Geriatric Patients | |
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| Special patient Populations | |
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| Ems Operations | |
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| Ambulance and Air Medical Operations | |
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| Vehicle Extrication | |
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| Hazardous Materials | |
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| Incident Management and Mass Casualty Incidents | |
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| Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
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| The Practical Exam | |
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| The NREMT Practical Exam | |
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| Appendix References | |