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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Efforts in the 1960s by The Committee on Trauma of The American College of Surgeons in improving ORs, emergency rooms, and "Minimal Equipment for Ambulances" gave impetus to better care and more regulation of ambulance services. Organization and Specialization in Emergency Nursing. EDNA->ENA.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

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McMahon, Captain, Baltimore Fire Department Ambulance Service, with 15 illustrations by Colin E. Photo from which, by kind permission of Allen Press, shown above of early mouth-to-airway devices. Probably only Internet-accessible extant photo of the Gordon Airway. O’Donnell, C. Gibson, A. T., & Davis, P. Thompson, Jr. Paper $1.75.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The nose in basic resuscitation: In an ambulance service for which I worked as a Paramedic at a time when although trained in intubation, it was not yet permitted; our principle device was a nasopharyngeal airway with an oversized 15mm endotracheal tube connector. Do not miss.