Ambulance Care Clinical Skills

Packed with over 80 clinical procedures, this book is the go-to guide to familiarise yourself with the correct sequence and techniques for a range of different skills. Including both fundamental and more advanced paramedic procedures, it makes each procedure as easy to understand as possible with detailed step-by-step guidance and full-colour illustrations..

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Disclaimer -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Patient Assessment -- Respiratory Rate -- Peak Flow -- Pulse Oximetry -- Pulse Measurement -- Capillary Refill Time Measurement -- Blood Pressure -- Manual Blood Pressure Measurement -- Automated Blood Pressure Measurement -- Electrocardiograms -- The AVPU Scale -- Glasgow Coma Scale Score -- Face, Arm, Speech Test -- Blood Sugar Measurement -- Axillary Temperature Measurement -- Tympanic Temperature Measurement -- 2: Airway -- Recovery Position -- Head Tilt-Chin Lift -- Jaw Thrust -- Triple Airway Manoeuvre -- BURP Manoeuvre -- Bimanual Laryngoscopy with External Laryngeal Manipulation -- Airway Foreign-Body Removal with Laryngoscopy -- Suctioning with a Rigid Suction Catheter -- Suctioning with a Flexible Suction Catheter -- Oropharyngeal Airway -- Nasopharyngeal Airway -- i-gel® Supraglottic Airway Device -- Tracheal Intubation -- Needle Cricothyroidotomy -- Scalpel Cricothyroidotomy (Emergency Front of Neck Access) -- 3: Breathing -- Single-Handed Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation -- Two-Handed Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation -- Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation with Positive End-Expiratory Pressure -- Needle Thoracentesis (Cannula Method) -- Needle Thoracentesis (PneumoDart Method) -- Finger Thoracostomy in Adults -- 4: Circulation -- Epistaxis - Nasal Clip -- Olaes® Modular Bandage -- Blast™ Bandage -- Haemostatic Dressings -- Arterial Tourniquets (CAT) -- Arterial Tourniquets (SOF®) -- Intravenous Cannulation -- External Jugular Vein Cannulation -- Intraosseous Access -- 5: Drug Administration -- Penthrox® (Methoxyflurane) -- Spacer Device -- Inhalers -- Infusion -- Drawing Up an Ampoule -- Oral Administration -- Nebulising Medication -- Reconstituting Medications -- Intramuscular Administration..

Medienart:	E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022 ©2023
Erschienen:	Bridgwater: Class Publishing ; 2022 ©2023

Sprache:	Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:	Pilbery, Richard [VerfasserIn] Lethbridge, Kris [Mitwirkende/r]

Links:	ebookcentral.proquest.com [lizenzpflichtig]

ISBN:	978-1-80161-035-3

Themen:	Ambulance service Ambulances Electronic books Emergencies

Anmerkungen:	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources

Umfang:	1 online resource (476 pages)

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PPN (Katalog-ID):	1831744317