Customer Reviews

First Aid/CPR/AED for Schools And the Community

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I use this book to prepare for teaching CPR/first aid courses through for the Red Cross. I like how it is organized. It is straightforward, up to date and includes useful graphics and charts. It begins with the most life threatening conditions, (airway blockage, breathing emergencies etc.) and moves on to the less life threatening conditions. At the back of the book, one can find some specific chapters on topics such as asthma and allergic reactions.

There are also some useful sections in this book about prevention of emergencies. I think everybody should be aware of this material. I particularly found ideas for preventing poisoning in children to be useful.

The focus of the book is on keeping a person alive and minimizing shock until more advanced medical help is available. If you are looking for information on wilderness survival, in situations where medical help is not likely to be nearby, you should refer to this book, but you will need to do additional research.

This was very helpful, I recommend that everyone should try and get First Aid certified. Especially if you have children.

I bought this book used, but when it came it looked brand new. The shipping was a couple days earlier than the estimation as well. Overall I think I will purchase books from this provider again in the future.

Required manual for the participant of American Red Cross first aid and cpr for schools and community. It's very thorough, with alot of helpful and critical information regarding dealing with emergency first aid. The essential life saving skills are all included and other information that goes beyond the required course. Alot of visuals I also found very helpful. MT from California

This is a bit of an odd book to review. No one I know is likely to pick this book up and read it for fun. But if you're in a first aid class, you'll be required to read it and it won't be fun.

*****What's new in first aid*****
Two things worth knowing: first, the standard now is 30 chest compressions to 2 rescue breaths.

And "compound fractures" are now called "open fractures" because the latter is more descriptive of the actual injury, especially for the lay person. Apparently calling them "compound fractures" makes you old school.

And that's really the only good information you're going to get out of this review. It's not like you have any choices--if you need to get first-aid certified, you're pretty much stuck with this book or another Red Cross one like it.

****Problems with design****
The callout boxes overwhelm the main text. And there is rarely a good stopping point at which you can switch over to the sidebar items. Since I started reading Red Cross books as a lifeguard-in-training in 1995, I have always been frustrated with all of the flipping back-and-forth I have to do. I'm constantly losing my place.

****Poor use of open-ended questions*****
This book also introduced a new kind of sidebar--open ended questions. Maybe these would work if your instructor was supplying the answers, but when you're reading it on your own, it's frustrating not to be able to find answers to the questions somewhere.

****Needs to address the reader*****
This would be a great book if the target audience was just interested in flipping through at gleaning kernels of wisdom here and there, nothing too deep.

But it's targeted an audience that's trying to cram bucket-loads of information in a short amount of time so that they can get their certification. And, to add to the stress of cramming, most readers will also have in the back of their minds that they don't get something right, someone could die.

I appreciate that this book is trying to be more appealing, but it needs to be more like a book and less like a magazine.

It's a good book. Luckily I didn't pay very much for it because the class is more hands on. A good supplement.

Sadly, the book was in horrible condition. I was this would have been in the product details before I purchased this item. There was a huge spill across the cover. I ended up recycling the book.

Arrived on time and in the shape it was supposed to! Thanks a bunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Delivery was very timely which was needed in this instance...the condition was good enough for my needs. Thank You