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McSwain, Jude, Pioneers in Emergency Care die.

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July 29, 2015. James Jude, MD James Jude, MD, early Pioneer in Cardiac Resuscitation, developer of External Chest Compressions, and "father of modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation" dies at age 87, on July 28, 2015, "of complications from a rare Parkinson’s disease-related ailment. McSwain, Jr., MPA, EMT P.

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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

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DISPATCH-ASSISTED COMPRESSION-ONLY CPR COMPARED WITH DISPATCH-ASSISTED CONVENTIONAL CPR (ADULTS): CONSENSUS ON SCIENCE. What is the optimal instruction sequence for coaching callers in dispatch-assisted CPR? In the 2015 CoSTR, this was cited as a strong recommendation but based on very low-quality evidence.19,20

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NALOXONE ACCESS: Good News and Bad News

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The recent substitution of “Hands-only CPR” being taught --largely because the public is unwilling to do direct oral contact-- has further deemphasized artificial respiration. Just have a CPR mask or filter, and the willing skill to support breathing, also. MedPageToday – Emergency Medicine. 11/19/2015.

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Holding a lens up to life. Medical Errors in Entertainment

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Twice in my career, I've spoken to patients soothingly during CPR so proficiently performed that spontaneous movements and sentient responses could be discerned and apparently calmed; ─a quite remarkable thing. I have never found it necessary to stop CPR to beat my patient and curse them, yelling for them to come back!

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

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Peter Josef Safar in 2003, who is often called "The Father of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation," or noted citations of his work in articles written and references given by me here at AENJournal.com and the Advanced Emergency Nursing Blog. Safar, the early years 1924–1961, the birth of CPR." " Peter J. " Peter J.

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Is there a role for Hypnosis in Emergency Care?

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We had only first aid, oxygen, and CPR to offer. In the first part of my career, I did ambulance work, before there was ACLS, and certainly no pain medicine. Even as a Paramedic, in the early days, there was no analgesia, sedative (except for seizures), or anesthetic, to provide.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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factor than oral (which still suffers from the too-personal-contact-reluctance of the lay rescuer, as in “hands only CPR”), and to the more euphonious persuasion of “Mouth to Mouth” and “Kiss of Life.” At that time, too, it was felt that the cause, or —at least, the major focus of investigation, of Upper Airway Obstruction was the tongue.