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Prehospital Advanced Cardiac Life Support, 2nd Edition

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Features

  • Prehospital focus—Reinforces standardized procedures so that an effective continuum of cardiac care can be provided from prehospital environment to the emergency department.
    • Helps students sort through confusing guidelines to find the techniques that best work in the field.

  • Case Studies begin each chapter; Case Study Wrap-ups conclude each chapter.
    • Enables students' to integrate and apply the text concepts in a clinical setting.

  • Strong supporting art program—Including A&P, how to read 12-Lead EKGs and more.
    • Provides students with illustrations that explain difficult concepts.

  • Review questions end each chapter.
    • Provides students with an excellent review and self-assessment tool.

  • Four levels of information reinforcement—Initial introduction; algorithms and emergency care protocols; cases studies; and review questions.
    • Aids students' mastery of the information so that they can attain a comfort level in providing efficient emergency cardiac care.

  • Revised and updated to meet the new 2000 ACLS guidelines.
    • Provides students with appropriate, easy to understand and apply care techniques that meet the industry standard guidelines.

  • 12-Lead EKGs chapter added—Including ECG leads, basics of 12-lead ECG interpretations, ischemia, injury and infarction and ECG finding in other medical conditions.
    • Provides students with the most up-to-date information available on this valuable skill.

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

Table of Contents



 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.

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