Review of guidelines for pediatric advanced life support.
Most of the 2000 Guidelines related to PALS remain unchanged. The changes that were made are based on a review of the literature and were made to simplify the overall management of the critically ill child. Despite these changes, the primary goals of PALS--early recognition of respiratory failure and shock and prevention of cardiopulmonary arrest--remain unchanged.
Emergency Medicine Residency, Resurrection Health Care, Chicago, Ill 60631-3707, USA. zoniac3@netscape.net
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D022561:Advanced Cardiac Life Support / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000592:standards; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000517:prevention & control; D014481:United States