The Basic Provider -- Assisting with Advanced Life Support Skills

The Basic Provider: Assisting with Advanced Life Support Skills familiarizes basic level providers with the equipment and sequences of advanced level skills and teaches how to "assist" an advanced level provider. This unique spiral-bound handbook includes a companion CD-ROM with dynamic video presentations showing individual skills and how a BLS provider can interact and assist with an advanced level provider.
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• 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.