商品簡介
Jevon,(Birmingham Medical School, UK) offers a guide for nurses to the assessment and delivery of resuscitation to infants and children. He outlines the knowledge, skills, drugs, and equipment needed to treat infants and children with potentially life threatening conditions and prevent cardiac arrest, using an evidence-based team approach based on the Resuscitation Council UK 2010 guidelines. Topics include airway management and ventilation, management of cardiac arrhythmias, defibrillation and electrical cardioversion, advanced life support, anaphylaxis, special situations like hypothermia and poisoning, post-resuscitation care, bereavement, record-keeping and audit, legal and ethical issues, and resuscitation training. A few other contributors, including an attorney, provide three of the chapters. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Phil Jevon qualified as an RGN in 1986. He worked on CCU between the years 1987 and 1993 during which time he gained considerable experience in coronary care nursing. He has been the Resuscitation Officer/ clinical Skills Lead at The Manor Hospital, Walsall since 1993 and is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the Birmingham Medical School. Holding the hospital cardiac arrest bleep, he attends paediatric arrests. He has run the Paediatric advanced life support courses (PALS, APLS, EPLS) for the last 17 years.
