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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In fact, one of my surgeon grandfather's ortho buddies (perhaps with the help of some lunchtime martinis) took a look at the x-rays of my Boxer's Fracture and snapped it back into place without any analgesia or procedural sedation, casted me, and sent me home. Still no pain medicine. 1950s & 1960s Resuscitation Research.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Their focus was on developing a refined technique suitable for mass usage by the military who funded them and by the lay public. Many authors feel NTI is absolutely or relatively contraindicated with potential basilar skull fractures; there is also opinion arguing that airway protection trumps the extreme rarity of this complication.