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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Awake fiberoptic intubation where the patient consents, co-operative AND the airway is prepared with local anaesthesia. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ). 2014 May;32(5):452-6. Epub 2014 Jan 15. 2014 Oct;113(4):549-59. Epub 2014 Sep 9. What are the potential physiological sequelae?

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The ‘Hidden C’

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A third RCT demonstrated that even brief low-level incivility could increase the risk of major error during CPR by up to 66%. 2014 Jun 26;23(12):653-9. Exposure to incivility hinders clinical performance in a simulated operative crisis. They underestimated the impact of this exposure. The Fearless Organization.

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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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The 70th Bubble Wrap – DFTB x MSc in PEM

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Because of the retrospective nature of the study, the decision to use the bougie was operator-dependent. Reviewed by: Roberto Segura and Mel Ranaweera Article 3: Does hand position affect CPR quality in young children? Similarly, CPR-related injuries couldn’t be assessed for. Consequently, the success rate could be biased.

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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.

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Foreign Bodies in the Head and Neck

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Be ready to perform CPR. Children 1 year and up, unconscious – CPR: start CPR with chest compressions (do not perform a pulse check). Neodymium magnet toys (“buckyballs”) were recalled in 2014 (but are still out there!) After 30 chest compressions, open the airway. Not all magnets are created equal.

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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.