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Episode 14: Thoracotomy

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pdf Equipment required for resuscitative thoracotomy: Surface anatomy: Appearance of pericardial clot A foley catheter being used to fill a cardiac wound – note how easily this could be pulled out. An open chest with aortic compression Simulation of resuscitative thoracotomy by London HEMS team. 2001, 193 (3): 303-309.

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Peter Josef Safar in 2003, who is often called "The Father of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation," or noted citations of his work in articles written and references given by me here at AENJournal.com and the Advanced Emergency Nursing Blog. " established that exhaled air was a satisfactory gas for resuscitation.

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Episode 25: Tension pneumothorax 2

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Pleural decompression and drainage during trauma reception and resuscitation. Journal of Special Operations Medicine : a Peer Reviewed Journal for SOF Medical Professionals , 13 (4), 53–58. Initial Management and Resuscitation of Severe Chest Trauma. The Journal of Trauma , 71 , S408–S412. link] Cullinane, D., Ferrie, E.

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Episode 20: End Tidal Carbon Dioxide

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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. N Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: capnogram showing positive waveforms during each compression suggesting effective cardiac compression generating pulmonary blood.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It is a curious paradox of history that Nerve Gas was the product of agricultural research by the burgeoning chemical industry in Germany in the latter 19 th and early 20 th centuries, and that modern understanding of resuscitation came from WWII military investigations (Edgar A. Let's look at the early expired air resuscitation adjuncts!

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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

They may be entrapped; have limited access; may be midway in an operating position that can’t be changed; may need to be sitting due to pulmonary edema, morbid obesity, aspiration prevention or for awake intubation. Resuscitation, 56(1), 83-89. Most training is likewise done with the patient on a table. Try these situations.

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Mask Ventilation and Bagging Errors That Will Kill or Hurt Your Patient!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

​ Global definition : Masks are the interface between the rescuer and the patient with failing breathing - when a more technical solution is desired than mouth to mouth expired air resuscitation. {Other Know how to operate the table.) ©Murphy, MF &Walls, RM 2001 Based on Langeron ©Kovacs, G & Law, J.