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Interhospital Transfer Capabilities Still Pose Major Issues

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Transferring patients from one ED to another hospital is an established part of emergency medicine practice. Patients who need inpatient services do not match the index hospitals’ capabilities, or the patient requests such a transfer, or the hospital has no available inpatient space. Click to enlarge.

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Annals of B Pod: Social EM Corner- Suicide Related Behaviors

Taming the SRU

If providers are unsure about or concerned for the patient’s suitability for safe discharge, attempts should be made to engage hospital specific psychiatric resources. Development and Implementation of a Universal Suicide Risk Screening Program in a Safety-Net Hospital System. Journal of Emergency Nursing. Published 2010.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Still, except for the public hospital, other hospitals did little emergency work and would have unattended first aid or treatment room in which one could meet one's physician or have an intern provide care in the meanwhile. ." Organization and Specialization in Emergency Nursing. EDNA->ENA.

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Ten Commandments for Emergency Professionals; a compendium

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

World J Emerg Med , 1 (2), 85-92.` The „10 commandments“ of pediatric trauma [07. Research The Ten Commandments of Emergency Care Research (p59 ff ) From ACEP Mass Casualty Planning Management of Conventional Mass Casualty Incidents: Ten Commandments for Hospital Planning Lynn, M., PubMed PMID: 15261366.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It was extremely well-liked by field personnel, but virtually unknown in hospitals. The antipathy between field personnel with demand valves and hospital staff with bags was so great that there was seldom any agreement. Pre-hospital tracheal intubation versus esophageal gastric tube airway use: a prospective study. Bogetz, M.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

image of Fell-O'Dwyer apparatus.) Wellcome Library Movies of Artificial Respiration (hospital-based) from 1940s showing in six parts several methods in context of anaesthesia training. < History of emergency medical services in the United States. Note novelty of use without a pressurized cylinder.

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Carbon Dioxide As A Resuscitative Gas

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It necessitated either switching cylinders from an oxygen device or having extra equipment; but when used outside a hospital was administered with an inhalator or resuscitator by rescue crews or in industrial or electrical, gas, or mining environments. Select Bibliography: Fahey, D OStJ. The use of carbon dioxide in resuscitation.