Paramedic: Calculations For Medication Administration

I love math! I hate math! For math aficionados or those who cringe at calculations, this book will help master paramedic math.

Teaches the basic principles of mathematics and applies these principles to cases that paramedics face on the job. Chapters cover math rules and principles; fractions, decimals, and percentages; ratios, proportions, and conversion factors; and rate-dependent and weight-based calculations.

Practice problems are scattered throughout the chapters; students practice as they go. Every chapter highlights how paramedics can make use of the math knowledge that they already have in order to solve more complicated problems. Chapters begin with the simple and obvious, and progress to the level used in the field.

Practice makes perfect this text has over 700 practice problems! In addition to the in-chapter practice, chapters conclude with more problems. Complete answers to every problem, including explanations, are provided in the answer key. Every step is included, making it easy to follow how an answer was reached.

Part of the AAOS Paramedic Series; covers all the DOT objectives related to calculations for medication administration and can be used in prerequisite or co-requisite paramedic math courses.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 The Language of Math: Fractions, Percentages, and Decimals
• Chapter 2 Back to the Basics: Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing
• Chapter 3 Using the Number 1 With Fractions
• Chapter 4 Fun With Fractions
• Chapter 5 Ratios and Proportions: Finding the Missing Piece
• Chapter 6 Rate-Dependent Calculations
• Chapter 7 Weight-Based Calculations
• Chapter 8 Practice Problems
• Appendix A: Conversion Factors, Abbreviations, and Useful Formulas
• Appendix B: Collected Hints and Notes
• Appendix C: Answer Key
  Glossary
• Index