This second edition of Ambulance Care Essentials offers a complete guide to the skills, knowledge and understanding required to work as a support worker or similar within the ambulance service. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. However, this is a practical job and you will learn how to undertake safe manual handling, conduct a scene and patient assessment, and perform practical procedures such as managing an airway and assessing a patient's breathing and circulation. We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. Kris Lethbridge MCPara lives in the west country and works for the South West Ambulance Service Trust (SWAST) He is a paramedic and clinical educator with a passion for all aspects of prehospital care and is currently a council member of the College of Paramedics.Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. It is an essential resource for anyone wanting to prepare themselves for a role within the ambulance service as well as those hoping to become a more effective member of an emergency ambulance crew.

Nationwide providers of Event Medical Cover, First Aid and Medical Training, First Aid Supplies and Health and Social Care Consultancy.If you teach a relevant course of 12 or more students, please complete the form below with the details. Supporting senior clinicians is also a key part of the emergency care assistant role, and the Ambulance Care Essentials book and online course (bought separately) have got this covered, with explanations on how to assist the paramedic with advanced airway techniques and obtaining intravenous cannulation.

We also kindly request that you provide feedback on any textbook you receive within 60 days of receipt. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Other topics included in the Ambulance Care Essentials book and course ensure comprehensive coverage of the topics and patient populations that you will encounter, and includes: medical emergencies and trauma, cardiac arrest, obstetrics, paediatrics and older people. Covering fundamental elements of the role, the book combines theoretical aspects of communication, legal and ethical issues and safeguarding with more practical areas such as manual handling, medical emergencies and a range of clinical skills.It includes in-depth chapters on the primary areas of patient assessment as well as covering different patient populations across the lifecourse. Biography: Kris Lethbridge MCPara lives in the west country and works for the South West Ambulance Service Trust (SWAST) He is a paramedic and clinical educator with a passion for all aspects of prehospital care and is currently a council member of the College of Paramedics. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Covering the fundamental elements of the role, this guide covers a range of subjects from manual handling to a range of clinical skills. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.