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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. Prehospital Emergency Care, 4(4), 285-289. Touchstone, Mike. Accessed 2/29/2016. Sakran, J.

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H3N2 Influenza: A Complete Guide to Treatment and Protection

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A/California/07/2009 (H1N1), for instance, is the name of an influenza A virus that was identified in California in 2009 and that has the N1 neuraminidase and H1 hemagglutinin proteins. Since influenza B viruses are not classified into subtypes, they have similar names but lack the H and N designations.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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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. Sukhupragarn, “ Airway Management ,” In: P. Barash, B. Cullen, R.