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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

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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)

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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

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ü With foresight, plan for your alternatives based upon what you have now , until the patient can be brought safely to conventional resuscitation room settings. Resuscitation, 56(1), 83-89. SGAs and some methods of intubation can be placed in the prone position. Smally, A. Beckham, J., & Cortes, V. Weinberg, G. McClusky, S.,

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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This Blog episode concerns aspects of the concept of using the nose to obtain an airway or to ventilate emergency patients; it does not deal comprehensively with all aspects thereof that a specialist might do. Few people now remember that a strong early proposal in the move for expired air resuscitation was Mouth to Nose.