PALS ESSENTIALS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO PEDIATRIC ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT: Principles, Assessment, Emergency Management, Resuscitation, and Post–Cardiac Arrest Care for Infants and Children - Softcover

HOLLISTER, EVAN

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798173151452

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

When a child suddenly deteriorates, every second matters—and knowing what to do is only part of the challenge. Understanding why the child is deteriorating, recognizing the warning signs early, and responding with safe, coordinated action can make the critical difference.
PALS ESSENTIALS: A Comprehensive Guide to Pediatric Advanced Life Support is a detailed, clinically focused learning resource designed to help healthcare students and professionals build the knowledge, reasoning, and confidence required to recognize and manage life-threatening emergencies in infants and children.
Rather than presenting pediatric resuscitation as a collection of algorithms to memorize, this book explains the physiology behind deterioration and connects assessment findings directly to clinical priorities and emergency interventions. Readers are guided from the earliest signs of respiratory or circulatory compromise through advanced resuscitation, return of spontaneous circulation, post–cardiac arrest management, and continuing recovery.
Beginning with the unique developmental anatomy and physiology of infants and children, the book develops a systematic approach to pediatric assessment before progressing into airway management, ventilation, oxygenation, vascular access, emergency medications, fluid therapy, respiratory failure, shock, arrhythmias, cardiopulmonary arrest, and post-resuscitation care.
Inside this comprehensive guide, readers will explore:

• Pediatric developmental anatomy and physiology relevant to emergency care
• The Pediatric Assessment Triangle and structured ABCDE assessment
• Early recognition of respiratory distress, respiratory failure, and impending arrest
• High-quality pediatric basic life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Airway positioning, suction, bag-mask ventilation, airway adjuncts, and advanced airway management
• Oxygen therapy, capnography, physiological monitoring, and mechanical ventilation
• Intravenous and intraosseous access, weight-based medication safety, and fluid therapy
• Upper and lower airway emergencies, lung tissue disease, apnoea, and respiratory-control disorders
• Recognition and management of hypovolaemic, distributive, cardiogenic, and obstructive shock
• Bradycardia, supraventricular tachycardia, ventricular arrhythmias, cardioversion, and defibrillation
• Pediatric cardiac-arrest recognition and structured resuscitation

The book also reinforces learning through clinical tables, realistic medical illustrations, integrated case scenarios, multiple-choice questions, short-answer exercises, medication calculations, and comprehensive resuscitation cases.
Practical appendices provide rapid-reference material covering age-specific pediatric assessment and vital signs, weight estimation, equipment sizing, medication-safety principles, resuscitation algorithms, rhythm recognition, documentation, handover, transfer, and debriefing.
Written for medical students, nursing students, physicians, nurses, paramedics, advanced practice providers, respiratory-care professionals, allied health practitioners, emergency personnel, and clinical educators, this book bridges the gap between foundational science and real-world pediatric emergency decision-making.
Whether used for academic study, professional review, simulation preparation, clinical education, or continuing development, PALS ESSENTIALS provides a structured and practical framework for approaching the critically ill child with greater understanding, vigilance, precision, and confidence.
Recognize deterioration earlier. Understand the physiology. Prioritize effectively. Resuscitate systematically. Reassess continuously.
PALS ESSENTIALS is built to help healthcare learners and professionals understand not only what to do in a pediatric emergency—but why it matters.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798173151452
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 498
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg