Prehospital Emergency care have 46 chapters covering Emergency medical care systems, reserch, and public health, work safety and wellness of the EMT, Medical , legal, and ethical issues, Documentation, Communication, Lifting and moving patients, Anatomy, Physiology, and medical terminology, Pathophysiology, Life span development, Airway management, artificial ventilation, and oxygenation, Baseline vital signs, monitoring divices, and history taking, Scene soze-up, Patient assessment, Pharmacology medication and administration, stock and resuscitation, Respiratory emergencies, Cardiovascular emergencies, Altered mental status, stroke, and headache, Seizure and syncope, Acute diabetic emergencies, Anaphylactic reactions, Toxicologic emergency, Abdominal, henatologic, gynecologic, genitourinary, and renal emergencies, Environmental emergencies, Submersion incidents: drowning and diving emergencies, Behavioral emergencies, Trauma overview: the trauma patient and the trauma system, Bleeding and soft tissue trauma, Burns, Musculoskeletal trauma and nontraumatic fractures, Head trauma, Spinal column and spinal cord trauma, Eye, face, and neck trauma, Chest trauma, Abdominal and genitourinary trauma, Multisystem trauma and trauma in special patients populations, Obstetrics snd care of the newborn, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Patients with special challenges, The combat veteran, Ambulance operations and air medical response, Gaining access and patient extrication, Hazardous materials, Multiple-casualty incidents and incident management, EMS response to terrorism involving weapons od mass destruction. 

Includes illustrations, tables, and index