Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

AUGUST 19, 2015

I am countered with "Well, maybe some people wear them that way!" Twice in my career, I've spoken to patients soothingly during CPR so proficiently performed that spontaneous movements and sentient responses could be discerned and apparently calmed; ─a quite remarkable thing. " "No. They don't work that way."

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

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. How useful these would have been to let us know how well the patient was oxygenating and ventilating!

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In the 55 years since its discovery [Wikipedia] , it has garnered a well-earned reputation as an unparalleled specific antidote or remarkable safety. The recent substitution of “Hands-only CPR” being taught --largely because the public is unwilling to do direct oral contact-- has further deemphasized artificial respiration.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR. It was extremely well-liked by field personnel, but virtually unknown in hospitals. 2005 **Opinion piece upon poor equipment choices, inadequate or dangerous ventilation, AHA’s support for “Hands Only, CPR”, etc.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

We had only first aid, oxygen, and CPR to offer. " Well, then, what to do? In the first part of my career, I did ambulance work, before there was ACLS, and certainly no pain medicine. Even as a Paramedic, in the early days, there was no analgesia, sedative (except for seizures), or anesthetic, to provide. Erickson, M.D. (an

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

APRIL 8, 2014

The idea of placing one's mouth on the mouth of an apparently dead victim, particularly where the mouth may be covered with foam, mucus or blood, as often the case in asphyxia victims, as well as the fear of possible transmittal of disease is revolting to the average person and is difficult to overcome." Bauer, Robert O. Tercier, J.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

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.

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