How many times have you stood in front of that so called Megacode station, and sweated buckets? No matter how many times you read the ACLS manual provided by the American Heart Association, you stay as confused as ever. The well meaning folks at the AMA seem to say everything that they want to say in a forest of words, that so effectively cloud the fundamental principles that they will be testing you on. And those flow-charts and so called summary cards, the more you look at them the crazier they look, in a way a lot like those inkblots that the psychiatrists love to torture you with. If everyone understands the ACLS books so well, why are they shocking asytole on TV all the time ?!! Learning point: we never never ever shock asystole!
Look online for the multitude of ACLS learning products, ranging from $50 to $200 in prices. They all capitalize on the same fact: the rambling, confusing, incoherent teaching material contained in the official learning materials that piles confusion on top of ignorance, and finally makes you scream, "Help! I am willing to cough up $200 to anyone who can explain this darn stuff to me."
ACLS is fundamentally simple. It is based on just a few simple principles that you can learn very easily, instead of those robotic flowcharts that will trip you up even if you look at them during the test itself. Yes it is true. If you take the megacode with the official ACLS manual open in front of you, chances are you will tie yourself up in more knots than Houdini.
So once you have finished tearing out your hair in response to the official teaching material, get a cup of coffee, sit down and read the ACLS MIDNIGHT REVIEW. It teaches you with the intent of teaching you, not with the intent of confusing you or impressing you or making your hair turn white.
And best of all, you can download it entirely free, and try it out before you even decide you want to order a copy, which we believe is very fair, because that is what you would get to do in a bookstore.
So stop wasting your time, money and energy on something so simple as ACLS, try to grasp the fundamentals. Read the ACLS MIDNIGHT REVIEW and have a physician friend test you out with a dry run megacode. You will be surprised at how well you will do.
That being said, be aware that this is 100% unofficial and unapproved. But it is simple and it works. And it saves you a lot of humiliation in front of your sneering peers.