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McSwain, Jude, Pioneers in Emergency Care die.

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Additional information about Dr McSwain's life and work can be found at: Tulane University School of Medicine mini-biography Nat'l Association of Emergency Medical Technicians; PHTLS Medical Director EMSSolutionsInt blog of Dr Ramon Reyes. National EMS Museum Biographies. CPR and the First Defibrillator- Drs. EMS Museum.

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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

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DISPATCH-ASSISTED COMPRESSION-ONLY CPR COMPARED WITH DISPATCH-ASSISTED CONVENTIONAL CPR (ADULTS): CONSENSUS ON SCIENCE. What is the optimal instruction sequence for coaching callers in dispatch-assisted CPR? The effect of delayed ventilation versus 30:2 high-quality CPR. " Knowledge Gaps: 1. ."

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NALOXONE ACCESS: Good News and Bad News

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This follows the g-r-a-d-u-a-l introduction to police and non-EMS basic responders of naloxone for this purpose, and prescribing to family and friends of opioid abusers. Just have a CPR mask or filter, and the willing skill to support breathing, also. Naloxone Nasal Spray OK'd for Sale.

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??I would have been thankful for, in days of yore …

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If doing what was called "the one-man-band resurrection shuffle" [single person CPR in the back of a moving ambulance], this worked very well, as the bag would stay hanging there on the patient's face. We were even more exotic, with 15 mm endotracheal tube connectors fitted in ours. Readers must verify validity to their own practice.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

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The lips of the dead and the ‘kiss of life’: the contemporary deathbed and the aesthetic of CPR. Implementation and care directives for "EMS" mouth-to-airway. Training in Ambulance and Emergency Programs McMahon, Martin C. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(5), F369-F373. Tercier, J.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

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In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR. Automatic transport ventilator versus bag valve in the EMS setting: a prospective, randomized trial. Study finds EMS able to do more tasks, document better, perform physiological monitoring, with use of ATV.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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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.