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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Safar's work, in a series of studies and papers, validated manual methods of opening the airway, in use by anesthesiologists but relatively unknown outside the operating room, as effective and able to be taught and used by lay people. Safar, the early years 1924–1961, the birth of CPR." 1 (2001): 17-22. " 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). 2013;118(1):192-201. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e318278c8b6

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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. Artificial Respiration by Mouth-to-Mask Method — A Study of the Respiratory Gas Exchange of Paralyzed Patients Ventilated by Operator's Expired Air. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(5), F369-F373. Tercier, J.

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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). Steady the operating hand by placing your hypothenar eminence on the child’s zygoma or temporal scalp, to avoid jutting the instrument into the ear canal with sudden movement. Pediatrics.