The Basic Provider: Assisting with Advanced Life Support Skills

By Orlando Dominguez Jr. and John McPherson

This user-friendly handbook/CD-ROM package provides the basic prehospital provider with the skills needed to effectively assist with advanced life support procedures. This learning package emphasizes a team approach for better, more efficient patient care. The handbook introduces the equipment, medications and procedures and provides step-by-step bullets on how the basic provider can assist. Scenarios allow readers to think critically about a patient, and then determine what their actions should be to assist an advanced provider. This useful manual is packaged with a CD-ROM that contains video clips showing individual skills, types of equipment, and self-test questions.A focus on equipment used with various ACLS skills ensures that the BLS provider can instantly recognize a piece of equipment when it is needed in an emergency.An emphasis on the sequence of ALS skills allows the BLS provider to anticipate the needs of the ALS provider in rendering patient care.Use of numerous illustrations, bulleted lists, concise tables, and a user friendly writing style makes learning and reviewing advanced concepts quick, easy and effective.Tables of the most commonly used medications are included to familiarize the basic provider with what they will encounter in the field.Glossary of key terms is included for an at a glance review of terminology.The Putting It All Together chapter includes several scenarios in which basic providers can critically look at a patient and determine what their actions would be in assisting an advanced provider.The CD-ROM provides a visual tool for the basic provider to help recognize equipment, learn the types of medications, and assist with ALS skills. Containing approximately 15 minutes of video presentations, the CD-ROM includes coverage of airway skills, cardiac monitoring, vascular access, and medication administration.Convenient spiral binding allows the book to lay flat for easy use in the classroom or clinical setting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323022316
• ISBN13: 9780323022316
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 7.8"