This full-color manual is the required student text for the Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) course.

General Overview

This student manual for the instructor-led, classroom-based ACLS course is an essential resource for training physicians, nurses, and emergency medical care providers in ACLS. Also useful as a pre- and post-course reference book. Based on the 2010 Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation Guidelines for CPR and ECC.

Key Features and Benefits

This classroom and hands-on, instructor-led course builds on the foundation of lifesaving skills from the Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers course. In the ACLS course, skills are taught in large-group sessions and small-group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented. Manual includes information on:

• The importance of continuous, high-quality CPR
• Team dynamics and communication
• Aystems of care
• Immediate post-cardiac-arrest care
• Airway management
• Related pharmacology.

Dimensions and Specifications

8 1/2" x 11"
172 pages, plus a sheet of tab labels and one copy each of two reference tools:

• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Pocket Reference Card Set, 2 cards, 4" x 6 1/2"
• ACLS Precourse Preparation Checklist Card, 4" x 6 1/2"

Full-color, softcover book