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NALOXONE ACCESS: Good News and Bad News

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In the 55 years since its discovery [Wikipedia] , it has garnered a well-earned reputation as an unparalleled specific antidote or remarkable safety. MedPageToday – Emergency Medicine. 11/19/2015. Accessed 11/19/2015. Metropolitan Boston Emergency Medical Service Council, Inc. This is altogether “a good thing.”

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

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As Advanced Practice Nursing grew, at first in family practice, then into other specialties, emergency care became an area of interest. A natural one, and especially suited for increasing capability without regard to physician residency program output of graduates, and in less-well-served rural areas. EDNA->ENA. 10/20/2013.

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Why is there a firehose of information from which to drink?

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FOAMed author, Dr. Natalie May, in early 2015 used that firehose analogy to preface useful tips in controlling and managing the torrential quantity of information to inform our practice. The maxim from respected Emergency Physician Joe Lex is: If you want to know how we practiced medicine 5 years ago – read a textbook.

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Aging, Ailing, Advocacy, and Autonomy

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The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. American Nurse Today website.

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Emergencies of the Third Trimester

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

All went well. Geoff Jara-Almonte, MD and Hilary Fairbrother, MD // Editor: Alex Koyfman, MD Resuscitation of the Pregnant Trauma Patient – Pearls and Pitfalls www.emdocs.net 2/6/2015 Desjardins, G. Not in the textbook, but it worked. Sometimes, you can't just get away with a smile, wave, and hearty “Good Luck!”

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Holding a lens up to life. Medical Errors in Entertainment

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I am countered with "Well, maybe some people wear them that way!" My absolute pet peeve, with ~95% prevalence, is backwards insertion of a stethoscope into the ears. It is usually the first clue of an actor rather than a medical person. " "No. They don't work that way."

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Subcutaneous Rehydration

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Well, it turns out, what is old is new again. in the Journal of Emergency Nursing in 2013 compared subcutaneous fluid infusion with intravenous fluid infusion in children with difficult IV access. A 25-gauge butterfly or 24-gauge angiocatheter works well from an infant to an elder. 2015 Jan-Mar;13(1):122-8.