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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780323047500
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0323047505
Label: Mosby/JEMS
Manufacturer: Mosby/JEMS
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: October 20, 2006
Publisher: Mosby/JEMS
Studio: Mosby/JEMS



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Product Description:
Updated to reflect the new 2005 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines! Popular author, Barbara Aehlert, incorporates both prehospital and hospital management of pediatric emergencies. In a concise, easy-to-read outline format, it provides the most essential information a provider needs. It is also the approved text for the American Safety & Health Institute's (ASHI)pediatric advanced life support course. For more information on ASHI courses, call 800-246-5101 or visit www.ashinstitute.org. Instructor resources available; contact your sales representative for details.

  • An outline format featuring bulleted lists, concise tables, and a user-friendly writing style makes this comprehensive text incredibly easy to read and understand.
  • A Pretest and a Posttest consisting of multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, and essay questions tests readers' overall comprehension of the material.


  • Updated to reflect the new 2005 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines.
  • PALS Pearl Boxes help readers apply information covered in the text to real-life clinical situations.
  • Sidebars contain additional information relevant to the topics covered in the chapter, giving readers an opportunity for further learning.
  • A laminated quick reference card gives practitioners easy access to critical information in the field or hospital. This convenient card includes essential information regarding respiratory and heart rates, blood pressure, basic life support interventions, Glasgow Coma Scale, airway size and equipment selection for intubation corresponding to the Broselow Resuscitation Tape, several pediatric algorithms, and pain assessment tools.




Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Covers it all and more....
This is in an easier to understand format than the books put out by the AHA.....and it covers way more topics-a good study guide!


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - PALS STUDY GUIDE
It was a waste of money. I went to the AHA site and was directed to the correct book.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - pedsdoc
the book has most of the information needed. would appreciate if more tables were included


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - It is what it is...
More critical reviews of this "study guide" seem to miss the point. This is *not* an in-depth study of pediatric emergency medicine. That is not what PALS is even intended to be, in the first place. PALS (and, by extension, this book) necessarilly is narrow in focus. (The cynical joke among prehospital responders is that PALS is a 16 hour course in "airway-fluid-airway-fluid-airway-fluid", and if you need to go to the drug box you've got real trouble.) Detailed exposition of drownings/toxicology ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Very lacking in information
As a Registered Respiratory Therapist, I took PALS last year and was very impressed with a different PALS book used by the hospital. I was hoping that this PALS book by Barbara Achlert would contain similar information. But this book contains very little information and does not even cover the basics like toxicology (a major cause childhood ER visits) and cold-water-near-drownings. And the information that this book does provide is extremely sketchy with many important factors missing that are a vital ... Read More






 






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