ACLS Scenarios: Core Concepts for Case-Based Learning

By Richard O. Cummins

An introduction for paramedic students to core material, using actual medical cases. Each case is matched with the appropriate algorithm and includes a commentary on how the algorithm applies to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815115172
• ISBN13: 9780815115175
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Mosby Inc
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

acls scenario based learning

good explanation why scenario/case based teaching is an important teaching strategy. Great format for each scenario. Good idea to have not only what to do but what NOT to do.

Superbly written and well-organized. A "MUST-HAVE"!!!

Highly recommended text for new or seasoned ACLS providers. Provides wonderful insight into new case-based learning. Also an excellent reference for ACLS instructors wanting concise and organized teaching points and sample scenarios for students. The "Five Quadrads" teaching approach and "Why? When?" method for drugs is an easy and real-world applicable way to logically break-down information. You absolutely MUST have this book for your reference library!!!! You owe it to yourself AND your patients.

A must for all providers

Dr. Cummins and Ms. Graves have written the best ACLS book I've seen in years. I have been a paramedic for eighteen years. After a year off, I found it somewhat challenging to get started again. This book has most certainly helped my return. I will keep this book a very long time and I plan to share the cases with my fellow medics. Thank you both for this educational text.

ACLS with the provider in mind

ACLS training has been memorization and DRY runs at best until Cummins, Graves, et. al., transformed it to the dynamic subject that it is with ACLS Scenarios: Core Concepts for Case-Based Learning. It presents the reader with real day-to-day medical emergency problems and gives logic-based scenarios to reason through and treat. The case examples are well chosen to give that "you are there" feel. It's a fast read yet will serve as a trusted reference.