500 flashcards make it easy to study ACLS anytime, anywhere! Corresponding to Aehlert: ACLS Study Guide, 3rd Edition, these flashcards offer a quick, concise overview of the information you need to know to pass ACLS. Each card includes a question on the front and an answer on the back. Offered in book format, these flashcards may be removed and organized by topic.

• 500 study cards cover each ACLS topic.
• Full-color design allows for color coding and easy correlation with the ACLS Study Guide.
• Numerous high-quality illustrations - including practice rhythm strips - offer visual clarity for easier understanding of ACLS concepts.
• A newly combined vascular access and medication section covers methods to access the venous circulation and common medications used during cardiac emergencies.
• Case studies give you the opportunity to practice correct patient management.
• Perforation allows you to remove the cards to make your own customized study decks.

• Content corresponds to Aehlert: ACLS Study Guide, 3rd Edition and the 2005 ECC guidelines.
• 100 cards on dysrhythmia recognition with 30 new practice rhythm strips provide a great refresher on rhythm recognition.
• 34 new cards cover special resuscitation situations.

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Virtual Patient Encounters is a breakthrough in EMS education! Users can get real-world prehospital experience without leaving the classroom or home! The Virtual Patient Encounters learning triad - a textbook, interactive patient simulation software, and a study guide that ties everything together - offers a state-of-the-art tool for developing critical thinking skills. Users can apply what they're learning in Paramedic Practice Today: Above and Beyond on 15 virtual patients in a variety of prehospital environments. It's an incredible opportunity to make real patient care decisions in a safe environment!

• An extraordinary study guide helps students take the knowledge they learn in Paramedic Practice Today: Above and Beyond, and apply it to 15 complex patient care scenarios in a virtual prehospital setting - promoting mastery of NSC competencies.
• Two different types of lessons are included in each VPE study guide: preparatory (foundational) lessons and summative lessons to ensure that students can benefit from the study guide exercises throughout their class, not just as a summary tool.
• The preparatory lessons cover a particular topic by using multiple cases. The lesson on patient assessment, for example, is a preparatory lesson that covers multiple cases in the software.
• Summative lessons parallel the clinical chapters in the textbook and demonstrate the student's ability to manage particular medical or trauma conditions.
• Interactive patient care simulation software is used for each study guide lesson, featuring scenario-setting videos, virtual assessment tools, treatment protocols, emergency drug information, intervention wizards, and more.
• Serves as a bridge between the classroom and clinicals, so students truly understand how theory applies to situations they'll face in the real world.
• Realistic, emerging conditions of the patient are a direct result of students' interventions (student's interventions can and will change the patient's condition).
• Hands-on learning makes it easy for audio, visual, and kinesthetic learners.
• Prepares students for clinicals by removing the risk of harming real patients and builds their confidence throughout the course.
• Makes assessment of students easy because instructors can gauge student comprehension and ability to think critically through study guide exercises and logs from the software.
• Provides the opportunity for class discussion on the same patient so the entire class can discuss learning points of each virtual patient and their outcomes.

How the learning triad works:

• Faculty assign a lesson in the study guide.
• The study guide directs student to Paramedic Practice Today: Above and Beyond for a reading assignment - to ensure they understand the concepts before they apply them.
• Students then go to the case on the CD-ROM that's indicated in the study guide.
• After listening to a realistic dispatch, students watch a video of the initial approach to the patient.
• The study guide directs students through the software to create specific experiences relevant to text content.
• Students begin on-scene care by choosing from 21 appropriate assessments including ECG.
• Once assessments are performed, students can choose from over 30 interventions.
• Interventions even include medication administration.
• Patients respond to interventions with realistic emerging conditions that are a direct result of the students' care decisions.
• Throughout the software, students will be working in the study guide to complete activities, while they are also able to utilize both a Drug Reference tool and Protocols.
• Students also decide when to transport the patient.
• Throughout the software lesson, the software keeps a summary log of assessments, findings, and interventions, which can be saved and printed or sent electronically to faculty for evaluation....

Written in a conversational style, the 3rd edition of the ACLS Study Guide features unique, user-friendly, and easy to remember treatment algorithms - totally revised to reflect the 2005 emergency cardiac care guidelines. Full-color throughout, it offers a complete, concise overview of advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS), acute coronary syndromes, and acute stroke. It also features easy-to-access information with Stop and Review quizzes in each chapter and a comprehensive pretest and posttest. New to this edition are a handy ACLS quick-reference fold-out card, a heart rate ruler, and more! In addition to being an outstanding study tool, the ACLS Study Guide, 3rd Edition is the official text for the American Safety and Health Institute ACLS certification course. For more information on ASHI courses, call 800-246-5101 or visit www.ashinstitute.com.

• A pretest and posttest, each containing 50 questions with answers and rationales, provide readers with opportunities to check comprehension prior to and after study.
• Chapter Objectives allow readers to preview the main points in each chapter.
• Quick Review boxes throughout the chapters and Stop and Review sections at the end of the chapters test reader comprehension of the material.
• Chapters 1-8 comprise a Preparatory section to provide the foundation for the case presentations in the second section. Ten case studies present real-life clinical situations enabling the reader to make decisions based on information in the Preparatory section.
• Consistent organization of case studies include Objective, Skills to Master, Rhythms to Master, Medications to Master, Related Text Chapters, Questions, Answers, Essential Actions, and Unacceptable Actions to aide in the study and mastery of material.

• Unique treatment algorithms - totally revised to reflect the 2005 emergency cardiac care guidelines - simplify the new treatment guidelines, making them easier to use and remember.
• Chapter on Stroke has now been expanded to include Special Resuscitation Situations.
• ACLS Pearl boxes contain key points and useful tips for clinical practice.
• Keeping it Simple boxes contain essential information in a clear and concise manner.
• A heart rate ruler is included to help determine heart rate while practicing ECG recognition.
• A 4 x 6 pocket-size quick-reference card with key ACLS algorithms is included for field-use.
• Vascular Access and Medications combined into one chapter to present venous circulation information with all relevant common medications used during a cardiac-related emergency.

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