Emergency Care Guide is an open resource textbook for out-of-hospital medical providers.
This is an open source out-of-hospital emergency care text. Each chapter coveres topics starting at the foundational level and progressed in depth and detail. This allows instructors to utilize one anchor text for the EMR, EMT, and AEMT level. Student will have the added flexibility of reviewing foundational knowledge in previous levels or diving deeper into more advanced material.
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