Intermediate Emergency Care (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Comprehensive coverage of skills.
Review: Although the information contained in this text was easy to read and comprehensive, there were some errors. These errors consisted mostly of conflicting information with the workbook, and some grammatical errors which sometimes made reading difficult.

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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I found this book to be a great follow up to my BLS training. This book doesn't contain the in-depth information that a paramedic textbook would but it has many good introductions to important areas. Fluid replacement and pathophysiology, advanced airway management, basic pharmacology, pulse oximetry, defibrillation and communications are the best chapters from this book.

This book gives a great introduction to some very important topics. This book also gives a BLS provider another option for continuous education. BLS providers often get stuck between BLS and ALS books, that gap is very big and difficult to bridge. Intermediate Emergency Care provides a happy medium for BLS providers interested in learning more advanced procedures, as well as the obvious EMT-I certifications and courses.

This book would be a good read for BLS providers who have a good handle on basic medical care and are looking to learn more. The information presented in this book is easy to learn because of its layout.

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Summary: No longer current.
Review: This book covers an outdated version of the national EMT-Intermediate curriculum. If you are looking for a book to prepare for the exam get something a little more recent.