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Emergency Care in the Streets
The revised and updated Fifth Edition of the best-selling paramedic textbook of all time is the best ever. Includes the ACLS CPR Guidelines. This is the ideal guide for paramedics teaching and learning life-saving responses in emergency conditions, and an essential guide for those preparing for certification or recertification.
1087 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1987
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February 18, 2008
This book is my life for the next year and a half.
December 6, 2008
I'm on chapter 18 as of the finish of the first semester. Reads slow at times, but I just keep that gold patch & larger paycheck in sight & it ain't that bad.
August 24, 2026
Holy shit this textbook is absolute dogshit. And I like textbooks. I think Openstax is great. Nancy Caroline's is awful.
First, the textbook could be about 60-70% shorter. Every chapter is filled with so much redundant information and extra noise. Yes, all 52 chapters remind you how to do a scene-size up, a sample history, etc. There are also hundreds upon hundreds of pages dedicated to pictures of performing outdated maneuvers, like a KED. The head tilt chin lift is depicted in about 15 different chapters. Many of the chapter topics are so banal as to be almost developmentally delayed-- like how to use a radio, how to check an ambulance. I kid you not, there was one line that stated "the front of the vehicle is the side that typically goes first down the road while driving."
The problem, then, is that there are many excruciatingly difficult questions in the chapter quizzes and the test prep section. But because there was so much noise in the actual text, deciphering these questions is nearly impossible. Some of the answers (particularly for the quizzes) were clearly selected by some ignoramus who just cherry picked one line out of the text and has no context in medicine, but wanted to create 3 other answers that sounded good but were wrong because they didn't align perfectly with that one line from the text.
On the other hand, the answers for the test prep section are explained by someone who appears to have an MD and are very technical. This information might be valuable, if it weren't so esoteric and many times not even present in the textbook itself. And yes, I read every page and did every interactive lecture and took elaborate notes. The sad thing is I went to a very good four year college, have worked in EMS for years, and still struggle to even get about an 80% on most of these examinations. I can't imagine a blue collar student trying to get an A.
Don't even get me started about how awful the online features are. Including the flashcards that are alphabetically arranged (and cannot be shuffled) and often include the answer in the question.
Seriously, fuck this textbook and whatever marketing and educational incestual relationship makes it standard.
First, the textbook could be about 60-70% shorter. Every chapter is filled with so much redundant information and extra noise. Yes, all 52 chapters remind you how to do a scene-size up, a sample history, etc. There are also hundreds upon hundreds of pages dedicated to pictures of performing outdated maneuvers, like a KED. The head tilt chin lift is depicted in about 15 different chapters. Many of the chapter topics are so banal as to be almost developmentally delayed-- like how to use a radio, how to check an ambulance. I kid you not, there was one line that stated "the front of the vehicle is the side that typically goes first down the road while driving."
The problem, then, is that there are many excruciatingly difficult questions in the chapter quizzes and the test prep section. But because there was so much noise in the actual text, deciphering these questions is nearly impossible. Some of the answers (particularly for the quizzes) were clearly selected by some ignoramus who just cherry picked one line out of the text and has no context in medicine, but wanted to create 3 other answers that sounded good but were wrong because they didn't align perfectly with that one line from the text.
On the other hand, the answers for the test prep section are explained by someone who appears to have an MD and are very technical. This information might be valuable, if it weren't so esoteric and many times not even present in the textbook itself. And yes, I read every page and did every interactive lecture and took elaborate notes. The sad thing is I went to a very good four year college, have worked in EMS for years, and still struggle to even get about an 80% on most of these examinations. I can't imagine a blue collar student trying to get an A.
Don't even get me started about how awful the online features are. Including the flashcards that are alphabetically arranged (and cannot be shuffled) and often include the answer in the question.
Seriously, fuck this textbook and whatever marketing and educational incestual relationship makes it standard.
April 4, 2019
It's the standard text for paramedic school. My constant companion for a year.
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January 8, 2010I have been reading this since August and will be reading it until August....
October 3, 2015
Detailed and well illustrated.
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