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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

AHA statements are labeled with" [AHA]" We can now expect more frequent and closer cycling and knowledge translation from the laboratory workbench or studies of cases and outcomes to our own practice. DISPATCH-ASSISTED COMPRESSION-ONLY CPR COMPARED WITH DISPATCH-ASSISTED CONVENTIONAL CPR (ADULTS): CONSENSUS ON SCIENCE.

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

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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. These indices would have reinforced the clinical decision progress and avoided bad outcomes from unsuccessful estimates.

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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.