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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Validation of methods of controlling the unprotected natural airway; comparisons of methods of artificial respiration, validating mouth-to-mouth as the most effective means, training and popularizing mouth-to-mouth, and linking and coordinating external cardiac massage (the Johns Hopkins Group) to be Steps A, B, & C of CPR. " Peter J.

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Episode 20: End Tidal Carbon Dioxide

PHEM Cast

Qvigstad et al showed in again in Resuscitation in 2013, confirming inter-individual variation in effectiveness of CPR using ETCO2 as a surrogate for CO Trauma Deakin et al. (J. trauma 2004) showed that end-tidal CO2 may be of value in predicting outcome from major trauma (19).

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How long should CPR be performed after cardiac arrest in the hospital?

PulmCCM

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed on more than 250,000 people in U.S. How do physicians and providers decide to stop CPR after in-hospital cardiac arrest—and how should they? However, AHA’s guidelines are notably silent on how long to perform CPR. hospitals each year. who died) was 21 minutes.

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Foreign Bodies in the Head and Neck

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Be ready to perform CPR. Children 1 year and up, unconscious – CPR: start CPR with chest compressions (do not perform a pulse check). Nonfatal Choking on Food Among Children 14 Years or Younger in the United States, 2001–2009. After 30 chest compressions, open the airway. Pediatrics. 2013;132(2):275-281. doi:10.1542/peds.2013-0260.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The lips of the dead and the ‘kiss of life’: the contemporary deathbed and the aesthetic of CPR. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(5), F369-F373. Review of old methods for resuscitating babies. Tercier, J. Journal of historical sociology , 15 (3), 283-327. Waters, R. M., & Bennett, J. Elam MD, 1918–1995.