Care Delivery in Patient Transport: A Clinical Reference and Guide to Physiology, Stabilization, and Crew Decision-Making for Flight Paramedics - Brossura

Henson MD, Ramon C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1105035492 ISBN 13: 9781105035494

Casa editrice: Ramon C. Henson, 2026

Riassunto

Assess the Risk, Secure the Airway, Call the Mission Ready — Before Wheels-Up

Built for the flight paramedic, critical care transport nurse, and transport physician who must decide, alone and under time pressure, whether a critically ill patient can survive the move, this reference connects transport physiology and confined-space constraint to the decisions made before wheels-up and in flight. It moves from crew resource management and platform selection through organ-system critical care in transit and into the equipment and handoff infrastructure that sustain consistent practice, applying a five-part Readiness Check at forty-six decision points indexed in a closing compendium.

Trap-logic call-outs for the presentation that looks stable but isn't turn physiology into the specific action you take at the stretcher.

From the Referral Call to the Final Handoff, You Will

• Translate altitude physiology into pre-flight readiness — Boyle's law-driven pneumothorax expansion and hypoxemia risk resolved into concrete go or no-go checks.
• Secure the airway your cabin will actually let you manage — video laryngoscopy, bougie-first technique, and a failed-airway sequence sized to confined space.
• Troubleshoot the device-dependent patient — IABP, VAD, and ECMO alarm logic that tells you whether to escalate support or check the cannula first.
• Catch shock before the monitor does — compensated-shock recognition and the massive transfusion trigger you don't wait on hypotension to confirm.
• Manage the neuro-critical and stroke patient in motion — intracranial pressure crisis response and blood pressure targets that flip once thrombolytics are given.
• Deliver the baby you didn't plan to — precipitous delivery readiness and ductal-dependent congenital heart disease recognition before the ductus closes.
• Apply the Transport Readiness System at the exact decision point — a five-part Readiness Check built into every chapter and indexed for rapid mid-mission lookup.

Carry the judgment this specialty runs on into every mission you fly or drive.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ramon C. Henson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1105035492
• ISBN 13: 9781105035494
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302
• Redattore: Claude AI
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Germania