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ACLS Scenarios: Core Concepts for Case-Based Learning

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Highly recommended text for new or seasoned ACLS providers. Provides wonderful insight into new case-based learning. Also an excellent reference for ACLS instructors wanting concise and organized teaching points and sample scenarios for students. The "Five Quadrads" teaching approach and "Why? When?" method for drugs is an easy and real-world applicable way to logically break-down information. You absolutely MUST have this book for your reference library!!!! You owe it to yourself AND your patients.

I bought this book without looking at the publish date. It is outdated at this time. The book is chopped up and repeats itself through several chapters. Some parts were helpful. The book is hard to follow and is not designed for beginners who have had no basic arrythmia experience.

Dr. Cummins and Ms. Graves have written the best ACLS book I've seen in years. I have been a paramedic for eighteen years. After a year off, I found it somewhat challenging to get started again. This book has most certainly helped my return. I will keep this book a very long time and I plan to share the cases with my fellow medics. Thank you both for this educational text.

I got the edition, unknowingly, that used the '94 guidelines. The cases were well presented and thought out.
But don't bother unless you get an up to date version that includes treatments such as amiodarone, and uses the most recent AHA algorithms.

ACLS training has been memorization and DRY runs at best until Cummins, Graves, et. al., transformed it to the dynamic subject that it is with ACLS Scenarios: Core Concepts for Case-Based Learning. It presents the reader with real day-to-day medical emergency problems and gives logic-based scenarios to reason through and treat. The case examples are well chosen to give that "you are there" feel. It's a fast read yet will serve as a trusted reference.

good explanation why scenario/case based teaching is an important teaching strategy. Great format for each scenario. Good idea to have not only what to do but what NOT to do.