Mosby’s Paramedic Textbook, 3rd Edition, gives you everything you want in a paramedic textbook… and more! Updated, expanded, and packed with valuable new support materials, Mosby’s Paramedic Textbook, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive learning tool for both first time and refresher paramedic students. Offering complete coverage of the 1998 U.S. D.O.T. National Standard Curriculum (NSC) for the EMT-Paramedic, as well as enhanced content for further learning, this comprehensive textbook contains everything in one convenient volume. Instructor resources are available; please contact your Elsevier sales representative for details.

New to this Edition

• Detailed, up-to-date content throughout the text, including current AHA algorithms and the 2000 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines. All chapters comply with the 1998 U.S. D.O.T. National Standard Curriculum for the EMT-Paramedic.
• Two new chapters! Life Span Development and Bioterrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction.
• Three expanded chapters! EMS Systems/Roles and Responsibilities, Injury Prevention, and General Principles of Pathophysiology.
• A new space-efficient design and reorganized table of contents are streamlined and succinct, making this edition more student-friendly and easier to read.
• Approximately 150 new illustrations, primarily photographs, accurately present different techniques and skills and are relevant to the material presented in the text. More than 900 illustrations in all!
• A new back-of-book skills DVD features step-by-step videos of 13 ALS skills and printable National Registry Skills Sheets for practicing required skills.
• Rapid Paramedic pocket guide contains quick reference information useful both in the classroom and in the field. Available separately or as part of a package.
• New herbal appendix for pharmacology chapter.
• Mosby’s Drug Consult CD-ROM is added to each text, offering you over 22,000 unbiased drug entries with generic, U.S. brand name, and international brand names – all at the click of a mouse.
• Completely revised instructor resources make class preparation easier.