ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Background From its founding in 1881 to today, the American Red Cross has taught tens of millions of Americans first aid and other lifesaving skills, including CPR. It also offers a comprehensive “CPR for the Professional Rescuer” course. In 2015, it introduced Basic Life Support (BLS) training and certification for EMS personnel.

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RebelEM

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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. J Spec Oper Med.

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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. 1955 **The advancement of resuscitation within field military medicine. Automatic transport ventilator versus bag valve in the EMS setting: a prospective, randomized trial. Martin, Lawrence, M.D. Filbrun, T.,

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

APRIL 8, 2014

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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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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