Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview of critical care transport -- Medical legal issues -- Patient safety -- Air medical transport fundamentals and flight physiology -- Patient assessment -- Respiratory emergencies, airway management, and ventilation -- Critical care pharmacology -- Laboratory analysis and diagnostic studies -- Resuscitation, shock, and blood products -- Trauma -- Neurologic emergencies -- Burns -- Cardiovascular emergencies -- Hemodynamic monitoring and circulatory support -- Gastrointestinal and genitourinary emergencies -- Endocrine emergencies -- Environmental emergencies -- Infectious and communicable diseases -- Toxicologic emergencies -- Obstetric and gynecologic emergencies -- Neonatal emergencies -- Pediatric emergencies -- Bariatric and special situations.