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Three Ways for Emergency Medicine Docs to Practice Mindfulness

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Staff interrupt you while you’re in Room 3 with a patient you’ve placed on BiPAP, “We have an incoming patient with CPR in progress in five minutes,” the nurse says before adding, “Room 4’s family really wants to talk with you again.” Dr. Koo is an emergency physician and attending at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, and St.

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UK-REBOA on Trial: Innovative or Over-Inflated?

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Military practice guidelines recommend REBOA for profound shock (SBP <90mmHg) 1 and ACEP along with the American College of surgeons recommend REBOA for traumatic life-threatening hemorrhage below the diaphragm in patients with hemorrhagic shock who are unresponsive or transiently responsive to resuscitation.

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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. THE EVOLUTION OF METHODS OF RESUSCITATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON, D. 1955 **The advancement of resuscitation within field military medicine.