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Managing raised intracranial pressure in severe traumatic brain injury – the basics

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The air ambulance service intubated him at the scene and pre-alerted the department before arrival. Pediatric Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations. An update on pediatric traumatic brain injury. Pediatr Crit Care Med. Doi:10.5492/wjccm.v5.i1.36

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Sir William Osler, and, “f/11, and be there … “

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

This ultimately led me through Boy Scout first aid; American Red Cross first aid; teaching first aid; ambulance work in the pre-EMT era; teaching in an early EMT class; Paramedic; and nursing as an Emergency Nurse. My ambulance service was an early adopter: we were all certified in ACLS when few physicians and practically no nurses were.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

L->R: Johnson & Johnson commercial version of adult/child & pediatric Safar S-tubes; middle: S-Tube of unknown manufacture of 2 OPAs conjoined with a plastic flange allowing use in either mode; right: comparison Berman airway, 100mm. McMahon, Captain, Baltimore Fire Department Ambulance Service, with 15 illustrations by Colin E.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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. Readers must verify validity to their own practice.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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. Schnabel, K., Bongartz, G., & Frei, F.