Includes index.

Introduction to critical care transport -- Critical care ground transport -- Critical care air transport -- Altitude physiology -- Flight safety and survival -- Patient assessment and preparation for transport -- Airway management and ventilation -- The shock patient: assessment and management -- Cardiac and hemodynamic monitoring -- ECG monitoring and critical care -- Critical care pharmacology -- Interpretation of lab and basic diagnosis tests -- Introduction to trauma -- Neurologic trauma -- Thoracic trauma: assessment and management -- Abdominal and genitourinary trauma -- Face/ear/ocular/neck trauma -- Burns and electrical injuries -- Principles of orthopedic care -- Special patients:pediatric, geriatric, and obstetrical trauma -- Pumonary emergencies -- Cardiovascular emergencies -- Neuologic emergencies -- Gastrointestinal emergencies -- Renal and acid-base emergencies -- Infectious disease emergencies -- Pediatric medical emergencies -- High-risk obstetrical/gynecological emergencies -- Neonatal emergencies -- Environmental emergencies -- Environmental emergencies -- Diving emergencies -- Toxicological emergencies -- Weapons of mass distruction -- Organ donation and retrieval -- Quality inprovement in critical care transport -- Communications and documentation -- The critical care paramedic in the hospital environment.