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EMS Street Strategies

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ISBN-10: 0766820130

ISBN-13: 9780766820135

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Stephen M. Soreff, Robert T. Cadigan

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EMS Street Strategies focuses on the interaction of EMS personnel with patients, their families and bystanders in an array of common medical, traumatic and psychological emergencies. Chapters feature real life case studies and offer detailed six-step intervention strategies based on the presented scenario that EMS professionals can apply to their day-to-day activities in the field. Also includes chapters on the stresses experienced by EMS personnel and methods for combating this stress in a productive and healthy manner.
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Book details

List price: $93.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication date: 2/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Associate in Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Health Systems Consultant, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Senior Lecturer, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Cardiac Emergency: The Heart of the Matter
The Elderly: Handle with Care
AIDS: A Fatal Virus
Trauma: More Than Physical Injury
Rape: Hidden Injuries
The Brutalized Child: A Family in Despair
The Potentially Violent Patient: Anxiety, Ambivalence, and Aggression
Depression and Suicide: A Semester in Hell
Alcohol Abuse: Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams
The Unwanted: Deinstitutionalization, Detoxification, and Dereliction of Duty
Provocative Patients: The Sexy, the Suit Conscious, and the Somatizing
Responding to All People: EMS in the Era of Diversity
Death in the Ambulance: Grief and Guilt
Multiple Casualty Incident: The Demands, Destruction, and Disorientation
Street and System Stresses: Recognition Is the Key
EMS Wellness: Things You Can Do to Help Yourself Handle Stress Better
Answers to Review Questions
Glossary
Index