American Heart AssociationCritiques

Saw a typo and believe question 1 part 11 was missing a negative because the answers except for the last one were right.

Otherwise, a good Spanish translation of the manual, barely any changes from the 2016 edition which surprised me due to the need to use PPE to avoid getting covid. Now let's continue with the ACLS.

Good Spanish language translation, nicely organized. I like it how the 2020 manual now has a section for ECMO even though it now cuts back on the EKGs. Sadly had to give it 4 stars because it doesn't include one single Covid CPR protocol even though the book was published in 2021 and there is still no mentioning of using the Salad technique during crash intubations even though it has been highly publicized since 2018.

Still, it's otherwise a great manual.

I wished it didn't abuse acronyms so much. Sometimes makes it harder to know what the chapter is about. The vasopressor dosages are real nice, but I would find it to be a lot more helpful if they showed an image on how an adrenaline infusion is prepared. I don't know if since this is a book aimed at American health personnel that are too cushy having technical assistants doing everything, but as an anesthesiologist in a developing country, these kinds of situations can and do happen in an OR setting and showing images on how to start intraooseus lines and preparing all of the vasopressor infusions would come in handy. I also felt let down the manual skips the dosage pf morphine for heart attack pain which is another situation I can face in my job without warning. The manual doesn't mention fentanyl as a suitable alternative and due to the peculiarities of the socialized system I work for, we don't get a crash course using moephine for situations that aren't as pain coadyuvants during routine surgery. Seems like the manual has a complimentary online course you have to complete in order fpr you to get the acls diploma during the hands on course, hopefully these specific complaints are handled there.

Otherwise, I enjoyed this manual as a nice complement to the Raul Esper book on asystole in the OR which says some of the same stuff but in less detail and more aimed for ER docs.

Easy to understand and easy to follow

This manual, based off of recommendations from the American Heart Association (AHA), teaches the basics of life support when/if one encounters someone in a life emergency. It intends to reach an audience of healthcare providers. It covers CPR, defibrillator (AED) use, rescue breathing, choking-rescue techniques, and naloxone administration for opioid-associated events.

The AHA and Red Cross administer trainings with this material. This is the standard for life-supporting rescue and first aid. They also have a course available for non-healthcare providers. The manual comes with well-organized chapters, replete with color diagrams and charts.

Current research literature informs this work’s content. A separate publication describes how the guidelines have evolved since the 2010 manual. The AHA updates its material every five years, so we should expect a revision soon in 2020/2021. This course is usually mandatory for all those in a healthcare setting. I had to take it before my first year of medical school. It’s helpful to know the key terms and to give some thought about what to do when a crisis occurs.

Excellent recipes, most of which are easy to make and require few/easy ingredients. I checked this out from the library, and enjoyed it so much I bought a copy.

The American Heart Association is known for producing high quality cookbooks aimed at improving nutrition for today's rapid fire lifestyle. This newest cookbook provides 175 recipes prepared in one of 12 methods of cooking including microwaving, grilling, braising, and poaching.

In true AMA style every recipe is detailed with preparation and cooking tips, nutritional content and clear precise directions. One disadvantage of this glossy covered paperback cookbook is the lack of photographs. A few color photos are tucked in the center.

The index is arranged by major ingredient but not by recipe and for older eyes the print is very lightly colored and harder to read.

The AMA has created recipes with fancy names and most have one or more unusual ingredient that unfortunately is not available in areas with smaller rural grocery options. If a family is looking for a simple familiar recipe perhaps cooked in a different style they will be disappointed. If a family likes variety and a change of pace with different spices and preparation styles they will like it.

The strongest feature that this reviewer found was the detailed information about each of the 12 methods of cooking that could be used with family favorite recipes. It would be very valuable to a new cook or as a gift to someone looking to learn healthier methods of meal preparation.

Thanks to Blogging for Books for the review copy of this new book in exchange for an honest review.

There are 175 recipes in Grill It, Braise it, Broil It, and 9 Other Easy Techniques For Making Healthy Meals. Unlike a lot of cook books that organized by meals or types of meats, this one from the American Heart Association is organized by cooking techniques. That isn’t the only thing this cookbook does that is different from the norm.

After some introductory pages regarding shopping trips, what to eat and what to avoid, as well as a number of lifestyle suggestions, it is on to cooking techniques. The first one is “Slow Cooking” and begins on page 6 with a listing of 14 recipes. Along with various soups, stews, and gumbos, there are also recipes for “Rosemary Steak Smothered In Onions” (page 19) and “New Mexican Meat Loaf” (page 22-23). Each recipe has a detailed ingredient list, detailed instructions, one or more bulleted cooking tips, and detailed serving info regarding calories, various types of fat, sodium, cholesterol, and more. Some information regarding preparation time is included in the more complicated recipes, but there is no overall estimate on each one how long it should take start to finish.

This same recipe format continues through the rest of the chapter sections. There are additional sections covering Microwaving (starting on page 29), “Blending” (page 50), “Grilling” (page 69) among others including “Broiling” (page 199), “Roasting” (page 220) and “Baking” (page 247). A classic “Herb Roasted Chicken” recipe can be found on page 232 and it includes how to make gray from the pan. The simple act of making gravy from pan drippings continues to confound me.

After the recipes it is on to the interesting information such as stocking a heart healthy pantry (pages 272- 275). This includes pantry items as well as perishable items in terms of produce and more. So, it is not just pantry items as one would think of as it includes refrigerator and freezer items among other things.

Advice on kitchen safety and working with food, basic kitchen equipment, as well as serving size by calories level is included before leading up to the eight page index that concludes the book. The eight page index is organized by ingredient as opposed to recipe.

An anomaly with the cookbook is the 8 pages of random colorful pictures of dishes inserted between pages 58-59 in the book. Each picture of a dish has the name of it as well as the page number location for the dish. This is the kind of random cluster of photographs one normally sees at the very beginning of a cookbook. Instead, it is inserted here in the middle of the section on “Blending.”

Also worth noting is the fact that much of the information in small type has been placed inside of grey background boxes. This can be hard to see on older eyes.

Grill It, Braise It, Broil it, And 9 Other Easy Techniques For Making Healthy Meals is not a flashy and colorful paperback cookbook. It is a plain barebones cookbook packed with detailed information. Whether it works for you and yours is something you will have to determine. If you need a cookbook that will tell you exactly what is in the food you are preparing, this one is for you.

Grill It, Braise It, Broil it, And 9 Other Easy Techniques For Making Healthy Meals
American Heart Association
Clarkson Potter/Publishers (Crown Publishing Group)
http://www.clarksonpotter.com
June 2015
ISBN# 978-0-307-88809-9
Paperback (e-book version also available)
304 Pages
$19.99

Material supplied by the good folks of the Plano Public Library System.

Kevin R. Tipple ©2015

I saw one review on GoodReads saying they wish they had the paperback version to make it easier to bring into the kitchen. I wish I had bought the hardcover edition, so it would be easier to read and wouldn't now be falling apart. In terms of contents, this is excellent, and not just for heart patients (which I'm not) but for anyone who wants to eat healthy without resorting to tasteless eating. Lot's of international options. Take the Poultry section. There are 44 recipes, almost all featuring chicken though there's "Curried Turkey with Water Chestnuts," "Turkey Mousse," and "Roast Stuffed Cornish Game Hen" and Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Indian, Israeli, Creole, Italian, Spanish dishes--even pot pies and crepes. So more varied than you might think.

It's all well and good that this is from the American Heart Association but i didn't find that many useful recipes (all though i should probably stop buying cookbooks because i seem to use them just for ideas anyone~even if i start out with a recipe it slowly morphs into something more my own and almost unrecognizable...)½

It's all well and good that this is from the American Heart Association but i didn't find that many useful recipes (all though i should probably stop buying cookbooks because i seem to use them just for ideas anyone~even if i start out with a recipe it slowly morphs into something more my own and almost unrecognizable...)½

This book is 100% of its time (the late 1980s/early 1990s). Lots of recipes seemingly lifted straight out of the Joy of Cooking and similar books but with changes like margarine substituted for lard/butter/most oils and fat free milk instead of whole. Still, everything is heart healthy and edible enough but it somehow seems more dated than some of the cookbooks that I have from the 1960s, probably because of its relatively young age.

Lots of good simple recipes

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I'm not one who enjoys cooking for its own sake. It's just something one needs to do. When medical advice put us on a low-sodium diet, our Culinary School Graduate daughter gave us this and it's excellent. Useful even if you're not interested in cutting sodium, because what it does is train you in the art of seasoning. And does it without being over-difficult. Makes a nice basic cookbook and, hey, add salt if you really want to!

Low fat and low cholesterol recipes. Many favorites have been modified using heart healthy ingredients. For example, in their loaf breads they use oil instead of butter or shortening, and the breads are moist and good.

$15.00

A book on CPR.

Our son, Joseph Heidenreich's first oral presentation in a meeting of the American Heart Association is listed on p. 311. His paper was entitled: "Adverse Hemodynamic Effects of Rescue BreathingDuring CPR for VF Cardiac Arrest."