Remove 2001 Remove Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Remove Operations
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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. Research into post-arrest after-care, therapeutic hypothermia, reanimatology. 1 (2001): 17-22.

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Episode 19 - Cannabinoids: Emerging Evidence in Use and Abuse

EB Medicine

A 2001 study described an augmented risk of myocardial infarction within the first hour of cannabis use and found an almost 5-fold increase in those who reported smoking cannabis at least weekly when compared to those who smoked monthly or less. The rhabdo is believed to be due, in part, to associated seizures, muscle tremors, and agitation.