Professional Responder Manual
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Professional Responder Manual
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Written by the Canadian Red Cross
A comprehensive all-Canadian resource for professional responders. Content organized for progressive learning, real-life scenarios, skills summary, charts and diagrams, and includes hundreds of colour photographs and bio-medical illustrations. Meets Paramedic Association of Canada National Occupational Competency Profile for Emergency Medical Responder and meets Transport Canada Training Program Standards in Marine First Aid (TP 13008E). Emergency Care text.
Contents Include:
- The professional responder
- Responding to the call
- Infection prevention and control
- Anatomy and physiology
- Patient assessment
- Airway management and respiratory emergencies
- Circulatory emergencies
- Shock
- Hemorrhage and soft tissue trauma
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Chest, abdominal, and pelvic injuries
- Head and spinal injuries
- Acute and chronic illness
- Poisoning
- Environmental illnesses
- Pregnancy, labour, and delivery
- Special populations
- Crisis intervention
- Reaching, lifting, and extricating patients
- Transportation
- Multiple-Casualty incidents
- Pharmacology
- Marine environments
- Workplace
- Abbreviations for documentation
- Sample ambulance equipment list
- The phonetic alphabet
- Medical terminology
Specs:
- 464 pages
- 21.5cm X 30.2cm (8 1/2" X 10 7/8")
- Available in English and French
