Customer Reviews

PALS Provider Manual

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Great course and materials. Be sure you get the cards and CD, as were included with this book. They are essential. If you plan to renew your PALS on line you NEED this book!

The American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Lifesaving (PALS) Providers Manual was the key to success in the PALS course. If you read the text and do the practice questions on the CD before the beginning of the course you should have no problem passing the course and getting certified. The farther in advance you read the more likely you are to be prepared for the 12 case scenarios you will have to practice in the course. The assessment checklist is also the same one that course instructors will use to assess your achievement on the selected case scenarios. Pocketbooks are great tools to keep as reference or even on hand if you are in a specialty where advanced lifesaving is common (i.e. emergency room, intensive care, etc...) I would recommend this manual to all those taking a PALS course (American Heart Association requires it too) and I predict the updated 2011 version will be just as concise if not better.

Excellent condition, great price, and super fast shipping! This book is well written and organized, which makes it easy to learn. DVD with visual materials is very helpful as well.

Helpful to pass the PALS exams. Everyone that I asked recommend this book. It was a great buy and received this book quickly.

Received book in a timely manner. Received book in exact condition that book was decribed on site. Will purchase from buyer again.

Pediatric Advanced Life Support: Provider Manual

I find myself wondering how any large book store can not have enough of these textbooks on hand. These are the mandatory books that most hospitals demand! If you are a health care provider (which endorses a huge population of medical care givers,) the necessity of this book as THE primary study guide to pass and obtain your certification so you are allowed to work in the department you are in is of paramount importance. It amazes me that the most well know on line book seller finds itself without the current editions, forcing people to choose used copies and risk buying an outdated book. By outdated, I mean that the guidelines have significantly changed in the past year or so and this is very important for the buyer to understand.

Many times have I have experienced purchasing into a class and having the book sent to me very late, so I basically had very little time to study from the mandatory manual. This is true of many other mandatory classes as well. Unfortunately, the book was automatically charged in with the class. So, if a friend offered you their recent copy, in some facilities the opting out of a book purchase was not allowed.

I was surprised to see that the new updated version of ACLS AND PALS was very difficult to identify. I found a class that did not demand the purchase of the book when registering, but offered alternatives of library copies and any other resource that allowed you to obtain the most current book. I found it difficult to verify the demanded copy for the class, and again, rolled back around to my dismay that a proper supply of these kind of manuals were not appropriately available on amazon.com. Aw, well, consider it just another necessity of my profession. More and more certificates are being required to prove we are skilled and meet quality assurance guidelines. Apparantly, eacy specialty is asking for more...this in a time of severe medical providing shortage. I ask Amazon to try and pay more attention to these demanded classes requested of all ranges of hospital employees and insure these books be available year round. Many of us would be very appreciative.

My book does not come with CD and quick reference guide. Had I known, I should have ordered from the official publisher.

Three stars. Five stars for a great book on Pediatric Advanced Life Support. Negative Two stars for a Missing CD-ROM!!!! Especially when it is required for a course you are taking.

I never got this order. It has been a least a moth. I did not get this. I was charged on my credit card, but the manual; I do not know where it went. please see to it that I get this product. Thank you!!!

The book was in great shape like it said on the site, but NO CD-ROM or reference cards, which are essential to this course. There was never an indication that these items would not be included. I'm very disappointed :(