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Understanding Traumatic Dissociation in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Emergency Live

Emotional Management During Resuscitation: A Crucial Aspect for Operators and Rescuers A Different Perspective on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a vital skill for emergency workers and lay rescuers.

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REBEL Cast Ep123: Reduced-Dose Systemic Peripheral Alteplase in Massive PE?

RebelEM

PMID: 21422387 Wan S et al. Thrombolysis Compared with Heparin for the Initial Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism: A Meta-Analysis of the Randomized Controlled Trials. PMID: 15262836 Sharifi M et al. Pulseless Electrical Activity in Pulmonary Embolism Treated with Thrombolysis (from the “PEAPETT” Study). PMID: 27422214 Wang C et al.

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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).

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Validation of methods of controlling the unprotected natural airway; comparisons of methods of artificial respiration, validating mouth-to-mouth as the most effective means, training and popularizing mouth-to-mouth, and linking and coordinating external cardiac massage (the Johns Hopkins Group) to be Steps A, B, & C of CPR. " Peter J.

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The Technologically Dependent Child in the ED

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

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. Pediatr Clin N Am 51 (2004) 305– 325 Kusminsky RE. Eur Respir J 2004; 23: 430–434 Shinkwin CA, Gibbin KP. Pediatr Clin N Am 55 (2008) 1343–1358 Garton HJ. Hydrocephalus. J Am Coll Surg.

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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. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(5), F369-F373. Review of old methods for resuscitating babies. Tercier, J. Journal of historical sociology , 15 (3), 283-327. Waters, R. M., & Bennett, J.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR. 2005 **Opinion piece upon poor equipment choices, inadequate or dangerous ventilation, AHA’s support for “Hands Only, CPR”, etc. It was extremely well-liked by field personnel, but virtually unknown in hospitals.