EMS Response to Patients with Special Needs - Dr Katherine Koch

EMS Response to Patients with Special Needs

Assessment, Treatment, and Transport
Buch | Softcover
259 Seiten
2020
Fire Engineering Books (Verlag)
978-1-59370-498-8 (ISBN)
73,55 inkl. MwSt
Today, knowledge and understanding of prehospital emergency medicine and disabilities is limited. This valuable text is a new resource to start a discussion about the need to include disability education in EMT and paramedic curricula.

EMS Response to Patients with Special Needs: Assessment, Treatment and Transport is the first comprehensive resource of its kind to address the emergency prehospital needs of people with disabilities.

“A large subset of our population could be at risk for misunderstandings, potentially inadequate patient care, and incorrect or even dangerous interventions due to insufficient knowledge about disabilities in general and the issues particular to specific disabilities.” – Dr. Katherine Koch.

Dr. Katherine Koch provides descriptions of a specific disability or disabilities and how the characteristics are relevant to a prehospital setting and to the paramedics and emergency medical technicians who are treating the patients.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS:

General suggestions for working with people with disabilities, such as person-first language, wheelchair etiquette, and interacting with service animals
Suggestions for assessment and treatment are specific to EMS.

The disabilities discussed in this text include:

Autism spectrum disorders
Causes and capacities of intellectual disabilities such as pain and Down syndrome
Hearing, vision and speech impairments
Physical disabilities such as arthritis, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury
Mental health disorders such as ADHD, anxiety and schizophrenia
Traumatic brain injury
Alcohol use disorder
Cystic fibrosis
PANDAS/PANS
Rett syndrome
Sickle cell disease
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Gewicht 333 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Notfallmedizin
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-59370-498-4 / 1593704984
ISBN-13 978-1-59370-498-8 / 9781593704988
Zustand Neuware
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