Product Description

Critical Care Paramedic is the first and only book written for the expanding field of critical care transport. Utilizing the successful format of Brady’s best-selling Paramedic Care: Principles & Practice, this book is both written and extensively reviewed by leading experts in the field. This comprehensive book addresses all aspects of critical care transport including: operations, safety, advanced pharmacodynamics, advanced physiologic monitoring, advanced airway management, medical emergencies, trauma emergencies, organ donation, and other important areas of critical care. Critical Care Paramedic will be the industry standard for critical care paramedic education and available only from Brady.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58867 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1200 pages

About the Author

Dr. Bryan Bledsoe is an emergency physician with a special interest in prehospital care. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and his medical degree from the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center/Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine.  He completed his internship at Texas Tech University and residency training at Scott and White Memorial Hospital/Texas A&M College of Medicine. Dr. Bledsoe is board certified in emergency medicine and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Customer Reviews

Great book, just doesn't successfully meet its intentions.
This book was recently used as the primary text for my CCEMT-P course. While I believe this is a well written book, I feel it should be more appropriately used as a pre-course introduction to critical care in the pre-hospital and out-of-hospital setting, or as a tool to put nursing critical care textbooks into the EMS perspective. I feel this is a great book for any EMS provider to own and will gladly add it to my library instead of reselling it, I just feel that it poorly meets its intended purpose as a primary text for pre-hospital providers attending a critical care course.

Not worth it
I've been in EMS for over 20 years and when I took the CCEMT-P class I bought this book to read "ahead" before the class. The book read like any Paramedic textbook and did VERY little to prepare me for the UMBC CCEMT course, it had little to no correlation to the material taught in the course (the book is not recommended by UMBC nor does the book claim to be a part of that course, but the name indicated to me that it would be relevant). It doesn't go into enough detail of the "advanced" parts of the CC scope and spends a lot of time reviewing things that if you haven't already mastered you probably shouldn't be preparing for certification at this level.

Was the best, last year.
The Brady Critical Care text was the only prehospital critical care text until Jones&Bartlett released one this year; I believe Elsevier will be releasing one soon. Bledsoe's approach to this book is typical of his writings. It is clear and easy to read, but not overly informative. It is useful but really lacks the depth of information that I wanted to see given the complexities of the Critical Care field.
I do resent the demeaning comments that Bryan Bledsoe made about Critical Care classes and CCEMTPs after he published this book. He published an article in JEMS where he said that critical care classes dilute the EMS profession. I find that more than a little hypocritical, coming from a person who made a good bit of money from the sale of this text. While that doesn't devalue the text directly, I think it does call into question Dr. Bledsoe's priorities in writing this text.

If you read this text, you will be a better practitioner when you are done, but I think your time would be used more wisely reading the J&B text; it has more information, with a better presentation.