Principles of EMS Systems provides EMS personnel, from new recruits to EMS medical directors, with an overview of the organization and operations of an EMS system. It explores the role of the EMS medical director in all facets of an EMS system, with a special focus on medical oversight and accountability. This new resource provides a framework for EMS, police, and fire professionals, emergency physicians, emergency departments, and hospitals to work together to ensure that our country's health care safety net does not fail when we need it the most.
Features of Principles of EMS Systems include:
- Twenty-seven chapters, all updated and enhanced, from the history of EMS systems, through administration and management, transport issues, EMS for children, education and occupational health issues, research, trauma systems and disaster response, and much more.
- New chapters on air medical transport, response to terrorist incidents and WMD, operational EMS, public health, and EMTALA
- More than 50 EMS experts as authors, it is an "anthology" of their collective wisdom and experience
- Key education "principles" for each chapter
- Hundreds of references to additional sources of information and relevant Web sites
Written by more than fifty expert authors, Principles of EMS Systems gives you the tools needed to improve the operations of your EMS system, whether you handle a few calls each week or respond to hundreds each day. View the table of contents with contributing authors here.
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