American Heart Association

I wished it didn't abuse acronyms so much. Sometimes makes it harder to know what the chapter is about. The vasopressor dosages are real nice, but I would find it to be a lot more helpful if they showed an image on how an adrenaline infusion is prepared. I don't know if since this is a book aimed at American health personnel that are too cushy having technical assistants doing everything, but as an anesthesiologist in a developing country, these kinds of situations can and do happen in an OR setting and showing images on how to start intraooseus lines and preparing all of the vasopressor infusions would come in handy. I also felt let down the manual skips the dosage pf morphine for heart attack pain which is another situation I can face in my job without warning. The manual doesn't mention fentanyl as a suitable alternative and due to the peculiarities of the socialized system I work for, we don't get a crash course using moephine for situations that aren't as pain coadyuvants during routine surgery. Seems like the manual has a complimentary online course you have to complete in order fpr you to get the acls diploma during the hands on course, hopefully these specific complaints are handled there.

Otherwise, I enjoyed this manual as a nice complement to the Raul Esper book on asystole in the OR which says some of the same stuff but in less detail and more aimed for ER docs.… (mer)