Ambulance Care Clinical Skills

Clinical procedures are vital to delivering safe and effective patient care within the prehospital setting, but it is not always easy remembering each step accurately during a time-critical situation.

Ambulance Care Clinical Skills is packed with over 80 clinical procedures, this book is the go-to guide to familiarise yourself with the correct sequence and techniques for a range of different skills. Including both fundamental and more advanced paramedic procedures, it makes each procedure as easy to understand as possible with detailed step-by-step guidance and full-colour illustrations.

Not only does the book explore prehospital skills in detail, it also provides the rationale and evidence behind them, so you can fully understand the underlying principles and feel more confident in your practice as a prehospital practitioner.

Sections include:

• Patient assessment
• Airway
• Breathing
• Circulation
• Drug administration
• Trauma
• Cardiac arrest
• Infection prevention and control.

Ambulance Care Clinical Skills: Supplementary Checklists

Designed to be used alongside the Ambulance Care Clinical Skills textbook, these supplementary checklists are ideal for skills sessions, placements, and OSCE preparation. They provide a quick reference guide to the procedures outlined in the textbook – with the exception of cardiac arrest – allowing you to tick off each stage as you work through the procedure.

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.