The long awaited second edition of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Course (PEMC) manual is here. A veritable atlas of resuscitation, it has the largest number of photographs taken before, during and after resuscitation! It explains how the pediatric assessment triangle has been modified to help take therapeutic decisions. Current evidence-based guidelines have been incorporated such that safer and more effective treatments are employed during resuscitation.

In-depth explanations of underlying mechanisms of disease and pathophysiology are given. These help the reader to understand in a ‘back to basics’ way what is going on in a patient and help make differentialdiagnoses. There is also considerable detail and up to date information on key drugs, emergency treatments and essential equipment. What’s more! For the first time evidence from patients has been used to teach how to save life in the initial minutes. This book teaches that the best resource in the successful resuscitation of seriously ill children is yourself!