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Trauma Care Day 3

PHEM Cast

Providing PH care to little humans: Data from the Confidential enquires into head injuries in children 2010 In patients with a GCS of 8 or less transported by ambulance: Oxygen not provided in 30% Saturations not measured in 70% BP not measured in 55% This seems unbelievable – and definitely unacceptable.

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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. 1950s & 1960s Resuscitation Research. [No Elsevier Health Sciences. Amazon.com link.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Expiratory airway obstruction may well have been frequently misdiagnosed as it can produce breath-stacking and ball-valve obstruction that impedes any airflow with mask ventilation if neither a nasal nor an oral airway is used and the lips have closed under the mask. Lubricate well. Gerkin] Priceless. D., & Bair, A. Buffington, C.