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Brady
and Mosby plan to drop ACLS algorithms from textbooks By
JOHN HULTGREN Brady and Mosby, which publish the two major paramedic textbooks used in the United States and Canada, may stop including Advanced Cardiac Life Support algorithms because the American Heart Association is demanding too much money. Bryan Bledsoe, who is the principle author of Brady/Prentice-Hall "Paramedic Care: Principles and Practice," wrote Wednesday in the EMS-L List Server that the Heart Association now wants $50,000 per algorithm -- or 1 percent of book royalties -- for permission to include the new 2000 ACLS and Pediatric Life Support algorithms in their next textbook. "We always wrote and obtained permission from JAMA or the AHA to use the algorithms and it was always granted without cost or for a nominal cost," Bledsoe wrote. "We always credited the source as they requested." Bledsoe states that Mosby, which publishes the competing book, revealed that they were quoted the same figures to use the algorithms. Bledsoe wrote that "One of the stated goals of the AHA is 'To increase overall reach of the American Heart Association information to consumers and healthcare provider audiences.' This is exactly what allowing us to publish the algorithms would do. However, the amount of money we would have to spend to pay the AHA for permissions is nearly as much as we spent on the entire art program for the entire five volume set." "More important is the fact that the AHA is out of control in some type of proprietary mission," Bledsoe wrote. "It is behaving as a Wall Street company rather than a public service organization funded by donations from well-intentioned Americans."
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