Advanced Paediatric Life Support: The Practical Approach

by Advanced Life Support Group, Kevin Mackway-Jones

A CD Rom containing information on the clinical management of neonatal and paediatric emergencies. There are over 900 pages of management including more than 500 clinical photographs, x rays, ECGs. It also includes over 120 videos involving children experiencing emergency problems and receiving various life saving procedures. Covers emergencies relevant in both rich and poor countries. There are algorithms for the management of emergencies throughout, as well as a formulary of emergency drugs.

336 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1993

Reviews

[Mathias · Rating 4 out of 5]

Paediatric emergency medicine - very comprehensive reading. The "emerg" is the setting where doth take place the core practice of medicine upon which everything else is built , namely cardiopulmonary rescucitation - basic life support - everything else goes back to this fundamental axiom , its algorithm , that describes very plainly , almost in an autistic manner, the way to intervene in the body of another person in order to resuscitate its structure and integrity. If one masters BSL , then one truly masters the practice of medicine , I think

The algorithms follow very objectively written flow charts, completely rid of any distracting aesthetics or flowery descriptions. When approaching the mechanics of the body, which follow the laws of a machine , the logistical flow charts does make sense. But the bodily machine is created by atoms of matter (matrix) which indicates that depending on the level of analysis , the laws of nature described by Newton is integrated within a context of totality , where the poetic (meaning symbolic narrative) is the proper tool to capture totality

The meshwork of flow charts is weaved together in the matrix of reality , and poetic language is more appropriate when describing totality , compared to decription of the minute particulars