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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The following quotes from the ILCOR and AHA documents, under fair-use doctrine, will help summarize for you the changes. DISPATCH-ASSISTED COMPRESSION-ONLY CPR COMPARED WITH DISPATCH-ASSISTED CONVENTIONAL CPR (ADULTS): CONSENSUS ON SCIENCE. The effect of delayed ventilation versus 30:2 high-quality CPR.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR. Accessed July 28, 2014 **Quoting original documents of fascinating history. Study finds EMS able to do more tasks, document better, perform physiological monitoring, with use of ATV. Grainge, C. Copass, M.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

factor than oral (which still suffers from the too-personal-contact-reluctance of the lay rescuer, as in “hands only CPR”), and to the more euphonious persuasion of “Mouth to Mouth” and “Kiss of Life.” At that time, too, it was felt that the cause, or —at least, the major focus of investigation, of Upper Airway Obstruction was the tongue.