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Resuscitations are events that are often clouded by desperation and frenzy and directed by persons with limited experience, who may feel a great burden of responsibility for the circumstances precipitating the respiratory or cardiac arrest. The consequences of any delay in restoring ventilation and circulation are both sobering and frightening. Failure often assumes a personal tone, leaving the responders with feelings of inadequacy, especially when the patient is a child.

Anyone who witnessed the attempted resuscitation of an infant or child before the publication of the first Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) guidelines in 1986¹ recognizes the value of an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas (G.L.); and the Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis (J.J.P.F.).

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