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AHA and Red Cross Life Support Certifications Should Both Be Accepted

ACEP Now

Despite the broad acceptance of Red Cross certifications by national accrediting bodies, state agencies, and thousands of hospitals and clinics, some medical centers, nursing schools, and community colleges have policies that do not recognize both organizations’ certifications. This makes the material more relevant to health professionals.

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Prehospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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Nevertheless, mortality of prehospital traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA), and survivability with good neurologic outcome, remain the gold standards of trauma care in and out of the hospital and are effectively the criterion by which we measure outcomes in the trauma literature. An analysis of two national emergency registries. 2011;15(6):276.