Editorial Review:

The second edition of this study guide by popular author, Barbara Aehlert, incorporates both prehospital and hospital management of pediatric emergencies. In a concise, easy-to-read outline format, Pediatric Advanced Life Support Study Guide, 2nd Edition, provides the most essential information a provider needs. Pediatric Advanced Life Support Study Guide, 2nd Edition, reflects the 2000 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines. 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.

• 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.

FREE quick-reference card included!

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

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!

PALS STUDY GUIDE:

It was a waste of money. I went to the AHA site and was directed to the correct book.

pedsdoc:

the book has most of the information needed. would appreciate if more tables were included

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 (as they... more info

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