Pocket Reference for ALS Providers

Pocket Reference for ALS Providers is an indispensable resource. This massively updated, handy pocket-sized field reference is written specifically for Paramedics and offers the most up-to-date information essential to paramedic care. Features include an expanded emergency drugs section, new chapters on pharmacology and street drugs, and both newly updated and expanded signs and symptoms, special operations, and acute coronary syndrome chapters.

This handy pocket-sized reference has been completely revised to have the best information for Paramedics in a quickly accessible format.

Completely revised throughout with much NEW content, this book now includes chapters on Pediatric and Neonatal, Special Operations, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Pharmacology, and Documentation. Additional content areas include: Emergency Drugs, Street Drugs, Signs and Symptoms, Advanced Skills and Safety and Wellness.

All Emergency Responders practicing or studying Advanced Life Support Skills. Responders at the EMT-Intermediate or EMT-Paramedic level.

Dwayne E. Clayden, EMT-P, M.E.M.

Dwayne Clayden is the Assistant to the Medical Director for The City of Calgary Emergency Medical Services and responsible for Prehospital Research, Quality Improvement, in-house Paramedic Program, and the Tactical EMS Team.

Previously Dwayne was the Emergency Medical Service Chief for the City of Airdrie Emergency Services in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada from June 1996 to October 2001.

Bryan E. Bledsoe, D.O., F.A.C.E.P., EMT-P

Dr. Bryan Bledsoe is an emergency physician with a special interest in prehospital care. He is board certified in emergency medicine and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.