Ambulance Services Fractures Resuscitation 
Mind The Bleep
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Through this role, as an observer, I was able to experience various pre-hospital emergencies; the most common scenarios I attended were cardiac arrests, but I also attended trauma patients at the scene of road traffic accidents, fractures in a wilderness medicine setting, anaphylaxis, and many others.
Mind The Bleep
OCTOBER 17, 2024
You may work with the police, fire service, helicopters, coastguard, and ambulance services, so interagency relationships are important. This is slightly different in England and Wales where the Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW) organisation has more input over team processes – hence the variability between teams.
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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
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. 1950s & 1960s Resuscitation Research. Still no pain medicine.
Rural Doctors Net
AUGUST 30, 2013
Importantly the ambulance service in many rural areas will be staffed by volunteers – trained to Cert IV level but unable to cannulate, give drugs (other than penthrox/GTN) or intubate. Pull straight any fractures & splint them. Let’s break the case down into little chunks. Remember to apply splints to skin!
Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ
MARCH 27, 2015
Her rejoinder was “I didn’t think to blow through the nose, but, boy, did I blow between the teeth! ” The nose in Early Modern Expired Air Resuscitation: Early teaching in expired-air resuscitation was three-fold. Few people now remember that a strong early proposal in the move for expired air resuscitation was Mouth to Nose.
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