Resuscitation Rules [Paperback]

This pocket guide supplies key resuscitation facts in an easily read format to serve as an aide-memoire to anyone working in emergency situations. Each key statement is presented as an easy to remember rule. Each rule is explained and supported by relevant current references and any exceptions are identified. Line drawings are used to illustrate key educational points. This book proves that learning can be fun!Contributors.

Foreword.

Preface.

BASIC LIFE SUPPORT.

1. Confidence Does Not Imply Competence.

2. You Can’t Start a Blue Heart.

3. If the Face is Blue, The Heart is Too.

4. An Airway is What You do to the Head, Not What You Put in the Mouth.

5. It is Better to Deliver 17% Oxygen to the Lungs, Than 100% to the Back of the Throat.

6. Suction is Not Catheterisation by the Oral Route.

7. Gasping is Not Breathing.

8. Two Hands are Better Than One.

9. Only a Fool Breaks the BLS Rule.

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT.

10. Bring the Equipment to the Patient, Not the Patient to the Equipment.

11. The Laryngoscope is an Oxygen Deprivation Device.

12. Save the Day With an LMA.

13. If You Can Put It In, You Can Pull It Out.

14. Oxygen is Free - Don’t Make Your Patient Work For It.

15. You Are In Deep Waters When the Oxygen Runs Out.

16. Treat the Patient, Not the Monitor.

17. Paddles in, People Out - Paddles Out, Paddles in.

18. Pray When You Defibrillate.

19. An AED in Your Hands is Worth Two Manuals in a Rush.

20. When It’s Going Down the Tubes Think of Your NAVAL.