ACLS, pacemakers and central venous catheters

1. Help learning ACLS:
   1. ACLS
   1. ACLS Central well-written easy to understand comprehensive cardiac rhythms, concise ACLS drugs, practice tests, practice megacodes, last revised 1999 by Randol L. Larson,RN,CCRN,CRTT,RRT,BS
   2. New York ER RN ACLS links
   3. ACLS2000.org, the science behind the algorithms and guidelines by Paul C Lee MD FRCPC Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York and Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
   4. ACLS.net including simulated cardiac arrest scenarios
   5. Mad Scientist Software: purchase software simulators to help learn ACLS, ATLS, EKG interpretation, chest pain management and blood gas interpretation; purchase ER patient aftercare instructions
   6. ACLS Pre-test with answers and explanations US American Heart Association
   7. Resuscitation Council (UK) similar to US American Heart Association
   2. ACLS Algorithms
   1. ACLS algorithms Valerie DeFrance
   2. ACLS Algorithms Anesthesiologist Ravindra Prasad, MD
   3. Algorithms ACLS 2000
   4. ACLS Universal Adult Algorithm in color
   3. ACLS Medications
   1. American Heart Association ACLS manual ACLS Drugs, Cardioversion, Defibrillation and Pacing
   2. ACLS Drugs Duke University Durham NC
   3. Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Section 5: Pharmacology I: Agents for Arrhythmias Resuscitation 46 (2000) 135-153
   4. Cardiac Rhythms and EKGs
   1. Marcey's EKG Links
   2. University California Davis Adult Basic Dysrhythmia Review Strips Arrhythmia Interpretation: Self-Assessment
   3. EKG Reviews Ragavendra R Baliga, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan
   4. EKG Web Brain Ken Grauer, M.D., Professor, Dept. of Community Health & Family Medicine. Associate Director, Family Practice Residency Program College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville
   5. Personal Quick Reference Sheets from: Rapid Interpretation of EKG’s by Dale Dubin, MD COVER Publishing Co., P.O. Box 1092, Tampa, FL 33601, USA (pages 333 to 346)
   6. ECG Library authors: Dean Jenkins, Specialist Registrar, UWCM, Cardiff, Wales and Stephen Gerred, Registrar, Auckland, New Zealand
   7. EKG Interpretation google.com search
   8. ECG Quizzes Frank G. Yanowitz, MD, Professor of Medicine University of Utah School of Medicine with Co-author: Steve Parsons, MS II, University of Utah School of Medicine
   9. MDChoice.com ECG Rounds Challenging ECG's with explanations edited by Sol Nevins, M.D., FACEP, Director of Emergency Medical Systems, Morristown Memorial Hospital, Morristown, New Jersey, Certified in Electrocardiography by the American College of Cardiology
   5. Free On line CPR simulators: Adult CPR Simulator, Child CPR Simulator, Infant CPR Simulator, Variable Outcome Occupational CPR Simulator
   6. 1999 ACC/AHA Guidelines for Acute Myocardial Infarction
2. Pacemakers
   1. Medtronics pacemaker patient education resources  Also ask your Medtronics pacemaker representative for their patient education videos and notebooks
   2. Care and Safety of Pacemaker Electrodes in Intensive Care and Telemetry Nursing Units
   3. Dual chamber pacemakers
   4. Caring for Patients With Third-Generation Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators: From Decision to Implant to Patient's Return Home
3. Care of Portacaths and other central venous catheters
   1. Complications of and care of PortaCaths

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