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Hypothermia and drowning

Don't Forget the Bubbles

She was intubated at the scene and transported to your ED, with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed en route. Despite good quality CPR, there is no ROSC. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. Despite good quality CPR, there is no ROSC. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. C and remained pulseless.

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AHA and Red Cross Life Support Certifications Should Both Be Accepted

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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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Three Ways for Emergency Medicine Docs to Practice Mindfulness

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Staff interrupt you while you’re in Room 3 with a patient you’ve placed on BiPAP, “We have an incoming patient with CPR in progress in five minutes,” the nurse says before adding, “Room 4’s family really wants to talk with you again.” It feels impossible to fit in a moment to go to the bathroom or take a sip of water.

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UK-REBOA on Trial: Innovative or Over-Inflated?

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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.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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

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.