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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

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Trimble, BVMs] Many physicians of this era had experience of WWII and Korean War military medicine; they were joined by younger men who used GI Bill benefits to enter medicine, and then honed their skills in Vietnam. Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care: WWII and Korean War military medical experience and progress.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

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It is a curious paradox of history that Nerve Gas was the product of agricultural research by the burgeoning chemical industry in Germany in the latter 19 th and early 20 th centuries, and that modern understanding of resuscitation came from WWII military investigations (Edgar A. Thompson, Jr. Paper $1.75. Rasmussen, Frederick N.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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Their focus was on developing a refined technique suitable for mass usage by the military who funded them and by the lay public. They also proved that only expired air resuscitation guaranteed sufficient inflation volumes; that exhaled air was a suitable resuscitating gas; and that the operator would have continuous feedback from each breath.