Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation tutorials

Basics of CPR from Coulmbia University -http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/texts/guide/toc/toc13.html. This website contains illustrated steps of CPR in adults and children, managemement of choking, bleeding, electrocution and shock.

Medi-Smart - http://www.medi-smart.com. The medi-smart website contains tutorials and simulators on CPR. Downloadable demo versions of software on ACLS, trauma care, ECG and chest pain are also available.Links to various emergency medicine simulators and tutorials are also part of the website.

PALS simulator - http://www.netmedicine. com/cyberpt/pals/p1/p1-01.htm.The netmedicine website contains an online PALS simulator where responses to simulated clinical situations can be made online.

Learn CPR from Washington University - http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/ This website contains illustrated guides to CPR in adults, children and infants in step wise manner.The website also contains a CPR pocket guide, videos, quiz on CPR, links to CPR resources on the web and management of choking in infants and children.

Currents in emergency cardiovascular care http://www.americanheart.org/presen ter.jhtml?identifier=3012268. This is a quarterly news letter fron the american heart association which is available free in pdf format. The newsletter provides information on latest issues on emergency cardiovascular care. However,the other publications of AHA including those on PALS and CPR which can be accessed from this site are to be paid for.

How to do CPR - http://www.amherst.edu/~jaloduca/cpr.html This website contains illustrated CPR tutorials for newborn, infants, children and adults.The site has been hosted by the Amherst college emergency medical services. The site also contains information on dealing with airway obstruction and an emergency preparedness checklist.

C. Vidyashankar,
Pediatrician,
Military Hospital, Kamptee,
Nagpur - 441001,
Maharashtra, India.
Email:[email protected]