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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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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). 2013;118(1):192-201. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e318278c8b6

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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. Safar, the early years 1924–1961, the birth of CPR." In collaboration with Asmund S. Baskett, P.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It wrongly frightened some medical personnel as it was operated by a 50 psi wall source or from a step-down regulator from a tank (some thought the patient received wall 50 psi or 1500 psig from the tank directly to the lung. In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR.

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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. Artificial Respiration by Mouth-to-Mask Method — A Study of the Respiratory Gas Exchange of Paralyzed Patients Ventilated by Operator's Expired Air. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(5), F369-F373. Tercier, J.