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Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured
For nearly 35 years, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has been a driving force in the field of EMS education, first by publishing Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured. Now, the Ninth Edition continues that dedication and commitment to training future EMT-Basics and the instructors who are paving their way. Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition is the center of an integrated teaching and learning system that will help define the future direction of EMS education. It combines comprehensive medical content with dynamic new features and interactive technology to better support instructors and to help prepare students for the field. An interactive skills DVD is packaged free with each copy of the text.
1296 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1971
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September 20, 2010
On one hand, I didn't find the format of this book to be all that helpful... a lot of useless tables and figures, that at times were almost distracting. On the other hand, there is a stockpile of valuable information in here, and because of this, I passed the course the first time I took it. The online resources are actually the way to go for studying, which you will be doing a lot of, if you sign up for this course.
March 22, 2012
I have to read this book for my EMT-Basic class. For it being a text book, it actually isn't as bad as reading out of ther textbooks. I also think that it isn't as boring to me because it deals with medicine and medicine is something I am interested in. This book covers Medical Emergencys, Airway, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, and many more pre-hospital care items. I would recommend this book for someone who is interested in becoming an EMT-Basic.
December 26, 2012
I have always had an interest in this and I am glad I read the book, I am equally glad this isn't my career field. I have a renewed respect for those of you who put your life on the line for others daily.
March 13, 2025
This is a medical textbook about emergency medicine, which includes photographs. The content warnings are too long to list but fairly obvious. Includes content warnings for sexual assault.
This is a fairly solid and fun to read textbook. However, for a medical textbook that dedicated two chapters to reproductive health, there's zero acknowledgement that trans people, medical transition, or even reproductive surgeries due to cancer exist.
Also, the organization has several flaws. The case studies are the worst part. They're spread through each chapter with questions that refer to material later in the chapter. A few chapters (in particular the medical GI chapter) have anatomy recaps that leave much to be desired, although all that information is somewhere in the textbook. There are also a few inconsistencies between chapters about important details such as the expected pediatric vital ranges.
This is a fairly solid and fun to read textbook. However, for a medical textbook that dedicated two chapters to reproductive health, there's zero acknowledgement that trans people, medical transition, or even reproductive surgeries due to cancer exist.
Also, the organization has several flaws. The case studies are the worst part. They're spread through each chapter with questions that refer to material later in the chapter. A few chapters (in particular the medical GI chapter) have anatomy recaps that leave much to be desired, although all that information is somewhere in the textbook. There are also a few inconsistencies between chapters about important details such as the expected pediatric vital ranges.
July 11, 2021
Well technically of course, it wasn’t his fortune. He had stolen it from his wife’s fortune, and her family’s.
His wife and her family were French refugees from the Revolution – not nobility but still they did have some items of worth hey managed to bring with them from France. Most of it was Art – from paintings to sculptures as they were involved in the Art trade.
And this Lyon had really wanted some of this art so he could make money from it, and also so he could add to his collection.
But there was a particular sculpture that the Lyon took that they wanted back. So the tale is how they managed this caper and the various difficulties and pitfalls they encountered, plus a romance of course.
So an Art Heist but not a modern one. Nicely told and fun to read.
His wife and her family were French refugees from the Revolution – not nobility but still they did have some items of worth hey managed to bring with them from France. Most of it was Art – from paintings to sculptures as they were involved in the Art trade.
And this Lyon had really wanted some of this art so he could make money from it, and also so he could add to his collection.
But there was a particular sculpture that the Lyon took that they wanted back. So the tale is how they managed this caper and the various difficulties and pitfalls they encountered, plus a romance of course.
So an Art Heist but not a modern one. Nicely told and fun to read.
August 18, 2022
This is the fourth book in the Battle Lords of de Velt series. It features Coleby de Velt, the son of Ajax de Velt. The female protagonist is Lady Corisande "Cori" de Bourges. This was an enthralling read set in the dark times of the Medieval Britain. Kathryn Le Veque is very good at providing description that bring her stories to life. She pulls you in and makes you care about Cole and Cori. This book has a beautiful romance, exciting battles and boat loads of suspense.
I highly recommend this book.
I highly recommend this book.
May 16, 2026
This book will definitely get you through the class and prepared for the NREMT. Good descriptions of the skills, good explanations of different illnesses and injuries.
There are a few things they need to clean up.
1. They're still buying into the myth that "you lose 90% of your body heat through your head." That's only true if you're bundled up but hatless.
2. 20 pages on how to treat a patient with a tracheostomy tube. Not one mention in 1500 pages of how shock or any conditions appear in patients with dark skin.
There are a few things they need to clean up.
1. They're still buying into the myth that "you lose 90% of your body heat through your head." That's only true if you're bundled up but hatless.
2. 20 pages on how to treat a patient with a tracheostomy tube. Not one mention in 1500 pages of how shock or any conditions appear in patients with dark skin.
January 13, 2018
Good textbook, lots of detail.
May 4, 2019
Required Reading.
July 2, 2019
The book is good on its own but a good instructor will make an EMT-B class ten times more informative.
December 3, 2019
Learn about human body
I like to learn about the general over view of the human body and how to take care of it during and emergency situation.
I like to learn about the general over view of the human body and how to take care of it during and emergency situation.
November 4, 2022
Would highly recommend
March 13, 2023
Informative. I passed. Wanted to die.
August 23, 2024
Startlingly readable for a text book
December 18, 2024
One step closer to being an EMT!
June 27, 2025
My longest read! I take my national registry exam soon and have been grateful for this book teaching me lots! The pictures are the best part. Cheers to helping people🥂
June 11, 2014
Easily the most repetitive book I have ever encountered. It is massive, weighs a ton, and contains enough information to fill a reasonably sized 150-page text book, the information is just repeated over, and over, and over, and over again.
This wouldn't be a big problem (other than that it makes the book massive), since there is actually a lot of really good information in there, if it weren't for the poor layout. It is structured such that all of that good, important information is deeply buried within the repetitive information, such that you have to trawl through many pages of 'here is the same assessment we have told you about in every single one of the preceding 23 chapters' (that isn't an exaggeration) in order to find the one paragraph of important information. This is a real challenge, and I have missed important information because of it.
A number of people have told me they like this layout, because the repetitiveness helps them to learn better, but I don't understand why they can't just re-read the assessment chapter 32 times instead of having to have it repeated for them in the book.
Ultimately, it is a good book, and also the only book. If you want to be an EMT, you have to read it. It is just mindblowingly repetitive. If my organic chemistry text book were structured like this it would be 20,000 pages long.
This wouldn't be a big problem (other than that it makes the book massive), since there is actually a lot of really good information in there, if it weren't for the poor layout. It is structured such that all of that good, important information is deeply buried within the repetitive information, such that you have to trawl through many pages of 'here is the same assessment we have told you about in every single one of the preceding 23 chapters' (that isn't an exaggeration) in order to find the one paragraph of important information. This is a real challenge, and I have missed important information because of it.
A number of people have told me they like this layout, because the repetitiveness helps them to learn better, but I don't understand why they can't just re-read the assessment chapter 32 times instead of having to have it repeated for them in the book.
Ultimately, it is a good book, and also the only book. If you want to be an EMT, you have to read it. It is just mindblowingly repetitive. If my organic chemistry text book were structured like this it would be 20,000 pages long.
June 6, 2013
Probably one of the most inconsistent textbooks I've ever come across. To that, the publisher provides online tests and quizzes which contain questions to which no answer is ever provided in the text - a theory which was proven right when neither of my paramedic instructors could locate the answers either.
This book is decades old now and should have been revised to the point of near perfection, but instead is surprisingly frustrating to follow.
On the other hand - it is *the* definitive work for EMT Basic instruction and is indispensable in that regard. I will keep mine forever simply as a resource.
This book is decades old now and should have been revised to the point of near perfection, but instead is surprisingly frustrating to follow.
On the other hand - it is *the* definitive work for EMT Basic instruction and is indispensable in that regard. I will keep mine forever simply as a resource.
April 17, 2008
This book has a good amount of information in it. It gets a low rating because here's so much unnecessary filler, repeated information, and information any given topic spread throughout. It makes it rather difficult to find information on something when you need it, and it's not set up that great for studying what's important.
April 5, 2013
Love this book. This was the main tool I needed to gain the knowledge of being an EMT. As I continue to touch up and refresh on some things the book seems smaller and smaller the more I read it. It's a essential book for all EMTs, anyone preparing to pass the NREMT, or anyone who wants to know what we do.
August 24, 2007
... I learned that when life throws you lemons- you should make lemonade
Do it trembling if you must,
but do it !
The only place where dreams are impossible
is in your own mind....
*Support Your Local Volunteer Ambulance*
=)
Do it trembling if you must,
but do it !
The only place where dreams are impossible
is in your own mind....
*Support Your Local Volunteer Ambulance*
=)
January 29, 2012
This is so neat! I took the class at Mount Nebo training center!
I didn't finish the whole book, because I was becoming EMR certified. I'm not old enough to be an EMT, but the class was awesome!
I didn't finish the whole book, because I was becoming EMR certified. I'm not old enough to be an EMT, but the class was awesome!
January 14, 2008
I read one of the first editions back in the late 70s when EMS was young.
September 30, 2009
I'll let you know 8 weeks from August 18th.
September 5, 2012
Well written and easy to understand. Everybody should read this book.
November 7, 2013
What a page turner! I finished it in three weeks! Great pictures, brilliant prose.
September 9, 2015
It's a textbook. Lol. It's quite redundant. The chapters are laid out nicely though. It is very appealing to the eyes. :)
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