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SGEM#183: Don’t RINSE, Don’t Repeat

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

By-standard CPR is started and EMS is called. They arrive quickly and take over the resuscitation. They continue CPR, get intravenous access, give a round of epinephrine and then wonder if they should start rapid cooling en-route to the hospital with some cold saline. She is not in a shockable rhythm. Reference: Bernard et al.

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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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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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The Technologically Dependent Child in the ED

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The Huber needle is not a resuscitative line. The main thing for us is to suspect it, detect it, control it, and if the child arrests, to do vigorous CPR to mechanically disrupt the bubbles. Vascular Devices: assume the line is not functional, and use another to resuscitate, especially in port-a-caths.

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The Science on Targeted Temperature Management

ACEP Now

Targeted temperature management (TTM) for patients following cardiac arrest resuscitation has gone through several dosing iterations in the past two decades. Recent Clinical Evidence on Post-Arrest TTM The accumulated post-arrest care literature makes clear that careful fever avoidance following resuscitation is essential. Circulation.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Her rejoinder was “I didn’t think to blow through the nose, but, boy, did I blow between the teeth! ” The nose in Early Modern Expired Air Resuscitation: Early teaching in expired-air resuscitation was three-fold. Few people now remember that a strong early proposal in the move for expired air resuscitation was Mouth to Nose.