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| A POCKET BOOK OF THE EUROPEAN RESUSCITATION COUNCIL GUIDELINES FOR RESUSCITATION 2005
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Edited By
Peter Baskett, FRCA, FRCP, FFAEM, Editor-in-Chief Resuscitation; Emeritus Consultant in Anaesthesia, Frenchay Hospital and Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK
Jerry Nolan, MB, ChB, FRCA, Co-chairman International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation; Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, UK
Description
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It contains the European Resuscitation
Council (ERC) Guidelines for Resuscitation 2005 in a concise, quick reference format for practical use in the field.
Audience
All healthcare workers potentially involved with resuscitation procedures i.e. physicians, nurses, paramedics and ambulance personnel.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Adult basic life support and use of automated external defibrillators
3. Advanced life support
- Prevention
of in-hospital cardiac arrest
- In-hospital resuscitation
- ALS treatment algorithm
- Defibrillation
- Airway management
and ventilation
- Peri-arrest arrhythmias
- Post-resuscitation care
4. Initial management of acute coronary syndromes
5.
Paediatric life support
- Paediatric basic life support
- Paediatric advanced life support
- Resuscitation of babies at birth
6. Cardiac arrest in special circumstances
- Life-threatening electrolyte disorders
- Poisoning
- Drowning
- Hypothermia
- Hyperthermia
- Asthma
- Anaphylaxis
- Traumatic cardiorespiratory arrest (TCRA)
- Cardiac arrest associated with
pregnancy
- Electrocution
- Cardiac arrest following cardiac surgery
7. The ethics of resuscitation and end of life decisions
8. Principles of training in resuscitation
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 232 pages, publication date: JAN-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-7234-3423-8
ISBN-10: 0-7234-3423-9
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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