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 Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 6 reviews)

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!
October 17, 2007

PALS STUDY GUIDE

It was a waste of money. I went to the AHA site and was directed to the correct book.
May 15, 2007

pedsdoc

the book has most of the information needed. would appreciate if more tables were included
February 25, 2006

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 relate to PALS) can be found in the Pediatric Advanced Life Support textbook which the American Heart Association publishes. That is, after all, the source from which *this* book is distilled. That is all this book is intended to be: a quick review. (Earlier editions of Ms. Aehlert's books actually had "Quick Review" in the title; why they no longer do is not clear to me.) Wider-ranging discussions about emergency care for little tikes should be sought elsewhere.

I strongly disagree with one reviewer's recommendation that this book be read by non-healthcare workers seeking to know a little more than basic CPR. Please understand: this is most decidedly *not* a guide for laypeople. From a practical standpoint, what use a layperson would have for knowledge of advanced pediatric airway control, intravenous cannulation, EKG interpretation, and cardiac drug dosage recommendations is beyond me. Better to not let such esoterica rent space in your brain if you aren't certified/equipped to deploy it when called upon. On the other hand, if you're really *that* interested that you'd read it out of mere curiousity, by all means, knock yourself out. But you'd probably *still* be better served, in that case, by checking out the actual PALS text.

However, if you *are* a healthcare worker who has taken a PALS course before, understands that the AHA PALS textbook is where you go when you want the down-and-dirty details, but would like to cut through to the must-know nitty-gritty because your certification is up for renewal and you need to pass the test again: this is the book for you.
June 06, 2005

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 part of the picture. I can only recommend this book to people who are not health care workers and who want to know little more than the basic CPR, and even in that situation, it would be a very weak recommendation. My final word is don't waste your money on this "Study Guide".
October 28, 2003

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