RT Book, Section
A1 Weisberg, Stacy N.
A1 Tennyson, Joseph
A1 King, Marie
A1 Leinbaugh, Erryn
A2 Cooney, Derek R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1126791730
T1 Cardiovascular Emergencies
T2 Cooney's EMS Medicine
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071775649
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126791730
RD 2024/04/18
AB Heart  disease  has  been  the  leading  cause  of  death  in  America  for  over  80  years.  An  estimated  935,000  people  in  America  suffer  a  myocardial  infarction  each  year  at  an  estimated  annual  cost  of  $151.6  billion.1,2  Although  the  development  of  EMS  is  often  ascribed  as  a  response  to  America's  shocking  rates  of  morbidity  and  mortality  from  motor  vehicle  accidents,  emergency  cardiac  care  has  also  driven  EMS  development  and  in  many  ways  has  become  the  central  mission  of  modern  EMS.  From  some  of  the  first  work  on  prehospital  cardiac  care  as  published  by  Frank  Pantridge  et  al  in  19673  to  large  multisystem  studies  of  cardiac  arrest  survival  published  in  the  past  few  years,  it  is  clear  that  much  progress  has  been  made.  Yet  the  basic  tenets  of  prehospital  cardiac  care  remain  simple:  identification  of  the  patient  with  a  cardiac  emergency;  stabilization;  selection  of  an  appropriate  receiving  facility;  safe  and  timely  transport  to  that  facility.