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Cardiac arrest: the science and practice of resuscitation medicine
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Edited by N Paradis, H Halperin, K Kern, V Wenzel, D Chamberlain. . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, pp 1338, hardback, £110. ISBN 9780521847001.
This 1338 page textbook, coming 10 years since the first edition, presents a contemporary evidence base for virtually every intervention and aspect of resuscitation medicine. It is aimed at “clinicians who wish to practise both the science and the art of resuscitation medicine”.
International recommendations for resuscitation are now updated every 5 years. The last update to the guidelines was in 2005 and this book delivers an extremely comprehensive and thorough rationale behind this guidance. The editors and chapter authors are established and …