ABC of Resuscitation (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Soar, Jasmeet; Nolan, Jerry; Perkins, Gavin D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

ABC of Resuscitation is a practical, illustrated guide to the latest resuscitation advice for the non-specialist and provides the core knowledge on the treatment of cardiopulmonary arrest. This edition provides a guide to the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2010 and the Resuscitation Council (UK) 2010 Resuscitation Guidelines. It Includes: * the causes and prevention of cardiac arrest * basic and advanced life support for adults, children and newborns * resuscitation in a range of contexts (in-hospital and out-of-hospital, including drowning, pregnancy, sport and trauma) * important aspects of implementation of guidelines including human factors and education ABC of Resuscitation, 6th Edition is ideal for all healthcare professionals including junior doctors, medical students, general practitioners, paramedics and nurses. It is also useful for pre-hospital care practitioners, emergency medicine trainees, resuscitation officers and all those who teach resuscitation. This title is also available as a mobile App from MedHand Mobile Libraries. Buy it now from Google Play or the MedHand Store.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118474853
• Artikelnr.: 38401957

Autorenporträt

Jasmeet Soar, Immediate Past Chair Resuscitation Council (UK), Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK Gavin D. Perkins, Chair Advanced Life Support Subcommittee, Resuscitation Council (UK), Clinical Professor of Critical Care Medicine, University of Warwick Medical School, UK Jerry Nolan, Past Chair Resuscitation Council (UK), Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
vii Foreword
ix 1 Cardiac Arrest and the Chain of Survival
1 Jasmeet Soar
Gavin D. Perkins and Jerry Nolan 2 Sudden Cardiac Death
3 David Pitcher 3 Causes and Prevention of Cardiac Arrest in Hospital
9 Gary B. Smith 4 Basic Life Support
15 Anthony J. Handley 5 Advanced Life Support
21 Gavin D. Perkins
Jerry Nolan
Jasmeet Soar and Susanna Price 6 Defibrillation
26 Charles Deakin and Michael Colquhoun 7 Airway Management and Ventilation
30 Jerry Nolan and Jasmeet Soar 8 Post-Resuscitation Care
36 Jerry Nolan 9 Paediatric Resuscitation
40 Ian K. Maconochie and Robert Bingham 10 Resuscitation at Birth
47 Jonathan Wyllie and Sean Ainsworth 11 Out-of-Hospital Resuscitation
52 Joanne K. Smith
Mark Whitbread and Fionna P. Moore 12 In-Hospital CPR
57 Robin P. Davies and Gavin D. Perkins 13 Peri-arrest Arrhythmias
62 Jerry Nolan and David Pitcher 14 Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
67 Rani Robson and Jerry Nolan 15 Cardiorespiratory Arrest in Advanced Pregnancy
72 David A. Gabbott 16 Drowning
78 Anthony J. Handley 17 Trauma
82 Kate Crewdson and David J. Lockey 18 Human Factors
86 Peter-Marc Fortune and Andrew S. Lockey 19 CPR Devices
90 Gavin D. Perkins and Jerry Nolan 20 Resuscitation in Sport
95 Carl Gwinnutt 21 Improving Outcomes from Cardiac Arrest: Quality
Education and Implementation
100 Jasmeet Soar and Keith Couper 22 Decisions Relating to Resuscitation
104 Serena Cottrell and David Pitcher Index
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