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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

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It is a curious paradox of history that Nerve Gas was the product of agricultural research by the burgeoning chemical industry in Germany in the latter 19 th and early 20 th centuries, and that modern understanding of resuscitation came from WWII military investigations (Edgar A. Review of old methods for resuscitating babies. 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. 1955 **The advancement of resuscitation within field military medicine. 2005 **Opinion piece upon poor equipment choices, inadequate or dangerous ventilation, AHA’s support for “Hands Only, CPR”, etc. Weingart, S.

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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.