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Prehospital Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Joseph J. Mistovich; Randall W. Benner


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Product Information:
ISBN-13: 9780131101432
ISBN-10: 0131101439
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
Pub Date: 11/2003
Edition Number: 2



Synopsis

Developed as a result of the authors' numerous years of successful classroom instruction to hundreds of students in ACLS courses, this is the first ACLS text developed exclusively for prehospital emergency care providers. It is the perfect resource for any prehospital ACLS course! Concepts are presented in a logical manner that allows the reader to progress from a foundation of basic core knowledge to more complex case management material with a focus on how it applies to prehospital care. Comprehensive and complete, it details all of the information needed to pass the ACLS course and the confidence to use the skills in the field.

Features:
  • Geared exclusively towards prehospital emergency care providers, giving them the practical guidelines they need to successfully treat cardiac patients in the prehospital environment
  • Thoroughly updated to cover the Emergency Cardiac Care 2000 Guidelines
  • New expanded chapter on 12-Lead EKGs
  • Algorithms and emergency care protocols that are based on best practices for prehospital emergency cardiac care


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 1. Key Concepts of Advanced Cardiac Life Support for Prehospital Care Providers.


 2. Systematic Approach to Emergency Cardiac Care: The Primary and Secondary Surveys.


 3. Airway Management, Ventilation, and Oxygen Therapy.


 4. Gaining Intravenous Access.


 5. ECG Monitoring and Dysrhythmia Recognition.


 6. 12-Lead Electrocardiographic Interpretation.


 7. Electrical Therapy: Defibrillation, Cardioversion, and Cardiac Pacing.


 8. Pharmacological Therapy.


 9. Acute Coronary Syndromes.


10. Prehospital Algorithms and Emergency Cardiac Care Protocols.


11. Prehospital Cardiac Emergency Scenarios: Application Exercises.


12. Acute Stroke.


13. Special Resuscitation Situations.


14. Special Treatment Considerations in the Prehospital Environment.