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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

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Efforts in the 1960s by The Committee on Trauma of The American College of Surgeons in improving ORs, emergency rooms, and "Minimal Equipment for Ambulances" gave impetus to better care and more regulation of ambulance services. 1950s & 1960s Resuscitation Research. Advanced Emergency Nursing Blog.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

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From the early 1950s to the early 1960s, validation by researchers such as James O. Pask) into drowning and funded early Cold War research into protection from Nerve Gas, that sprouted the saving of thousands of lives. James O. Dartmouth , Nova Scotia **Interesting report on life jackets and Pask's research. Thompson, Jr.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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The nose in basic resuscitation: In an ambulance service for which I worked as a Paramedic at a time when although trained in intubation, it was not yet permitted; our principle device was a nasopharyngeal airway with an oversized 15mm endotracheal tube connector. Some would even do primary cricothyrotomy or tracheotomy. Barton, E.