STREETS EMERGENCY CARE

When an emergency strikes, rapid assessment, sound decisions, and timely intervention can make a critical difference. Streets Emergency Care is a comprehensive educational resource designed to help readers understand the principles and practices of pre-hospital emergency medicine and community emergency response.

From the first assessment at an emergency scene to stabilisation, transport, and hospital handover, this textbook explores the knowledge and practical skills needed to respond to a wide range of life-threatening situations.

Inside, readers will explore:

• Scene Safety and Patient Assessment: Recognise hazards, assess vital signs, identify deterioration, and prioritise immediate care.

• Life-Saving Emergency Interventions: Understand airway management, breathing emergencies, CPR, AED use, severe bleeding control, and shock.

• Trauma and Injury Management: Explore head and spinal injuries, fractures, burns, penetrating trauma, road traffic collisions, and extrication principles.

• Acute Medical Emergencies: Study cardiac emergencies, stroke, seizures, diabetic crises, sepsis, anaphylaxis, poisoning, overdose, and environmental emergencies.

• Special Populations: Examine emergency considerations for children, older adults, pregnant patients, and people experiencing behavioural or psychiatric crises.

• Disaster Response and Triage: Learn about mass-casualty incidents, incident coordination, emergency prioritisation, and resource-limited settings.

• Communication and Patient Handover: Understand structured reporting, safe patient transport, documentation, and coordination between responders and receiving facilities.

Practical learning resources, including case studies, skill checklists, reference charts, self-assessment questions, and handover templates, help readers connect essential concepts with real-world emergency scenarios.

Written for students, first responders, emergency medical technicians, paramedic trainees, healthcare professionals, and community emergency personnel, this textbook provides a structured foundation for learning about emergency care outside the hospital.