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Why the interest in pre-hospital? Why not?!

Mind The Bleep

Im currently in my third year of working in a rural district general hospital Accident and Emergency Department, and one of the things that has struck me most is the use of pre-hospital medicine. Ive always had a keen interest in pre-hospital medicine. Enter Nith Inshore Rescue!

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Increasing Ambulance Services Efficiency and Accessibility to Improve Emergency Response

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

Ambulance services are an integral part of emergency medical services. In an intense medical emergency, the arrival of immediate help and an ambulance can make the difference between life and death. These make ambulance services vital. Let us look into some important functions that ambulance services serve.

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The Pressing Need for Ventilator Ambulance Services

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

There are three types of ambulances: Advanced cardiac life support Advanced Cardiac Life Support Ambulances (ACLS) are the enhanced version of regular ambulances. It provides sufficient oxygen, blood transfusions and other medication that helps the patient to be in a stabilized condition till reaching the hospital.

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How To Handle Medical Emergencies: A Guide For Everyone

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

If the patient is unconscious and not breathing, try to administer CPR or use an AED (Automated External Defibrillator), if available. Call emergency medical services immediately. Immediately begin CPR if the patient stops breathing. Breathing Difficulties Breathing difficulties could be a sign of a number of health issues.

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An Insight into Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs)

Mind The Bleep

You may work with the police, fire service, helicopters, coastguard, and ambulance services, so interagency relationships are important. Your skills as a doctor need to be different to your hospital role or abilities. Each year a team usually reports CPR being delivered. What illnesses or injuries do we see?

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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. Chief, Department of Anesthesiology, Baltimore City Hospitals, Asst. McMahon, Captain, Baltimore Fire Department Ambulance Service, with 15 illustrations by Colin E. Review of old methods for resuscitating babies. Tercier, J.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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.