PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) Review: Pearls of Wisdom, Third Edition [Paperback]

Guy Haskell (Author), Marianne Gausche-Hill (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071488332 | ISBN-13: 978-0071488334 | Publication Date: May 9, 2007 | Edition: 3

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"The purpose is to help healthcare professionals study, learn, and retain critical information needed for the emergency care of children and improve performance on the PALS final exam. Numerous healthcare professionals are required to pass a PALS course each year. The book is easy and fast to read, while closely following current American Heart Association guidelines.....To review the content covered in a PALS course, this book uses a question and answer format to decrease the amount of reading and to emphasize the main learning points. Only the correct answers are provided. This format will help the reader avoid wasting time reading, reviewing, and possibly learning incorrect information.....this study guide is attractive for its time-saving, easy to read format that emphasizes major learning points."--Doody's Review Service

Updated to meet the 2005 American Heart Association Guidelines, this rapid-fire question-and-answer book is required reading for anyone preparing for PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) certification or recertification.

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About the Author

Guy H Haskell, Ph.D, NREMT-P is the Director of Emergency Medical and Safety Services Consultants. He is also a Paramedic and Firefighter with the Benton Township Volunteer Fire Department in Unionville, IN.

Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, FACEP, FAAP is a Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. She is also the Director of Emergency Medical Services and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowships at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center's Department of Emergency Medicine in Torrance, CA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange; 3 edition (May 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071488332
• ISBN-13: 978-0071488334
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #308,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, January 14, 2011

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This review is from: PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) Review: Pearls of Wisdom, Third Edition (Paperback)

This book is completely useless to those wishing to take the PALS exam. The exam consists of verbatim regurgitation of opinions of the writers of the course manual and cannot be answered except directly from the manual. This book does not contain the same information in the same format nor does it give you the all important numbers of parts that there are in a given evaluation of a given system. In other words, the book is useless because the exam is ridiculous, but we can't do anything about the exam, except buy the official course manual which, you can be sure, the creators of the exam have a vested interest in, either directly or indirectly.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, February 15, 2009

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This review is from: PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) Review: Pearls of Wisdom, Third Edition (Paperback)

This book has lots of information in it, some I didn't know. I am still reading it and everytime I pick it up I learn more and more. I would definatly recommend this book.