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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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Hypothermia and drowning

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Elsa was found face down in the family pool 20 minutes after last visual contact and was picked up without resuscitation. 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. C and remained pulseless.

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

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Early expeditious definitive hemorrhage control is a major focus in trauma resuscitation. Emergency Department Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Trauma Patients With Exsanguinating Hemorrhage: The UK-REBOA Randomized Clinical Trial [published online ahead of print, 2023 Oct 12].

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

This is the fifth part of our series on "Early Modern Resuscitation." " Part I: Oral Airways, early resuscitation, and recognition of airway care. It was not a practical resuscitative aid until production could be commercially successful (~1895) and made portable in compressed form.

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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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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. Bauer, Robert O. 1967 November; 14(9): 236–249.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Her rejoinder was “I didn’t think to blow through the nose, but, boy, did I blow between the teeth! ” The nose in Early Modern Expired Air Resuscitation: Early teaching in expired-air resuscitation was three-fold. Few people now remember that a strong early proposal in the move for expired air resuscitation was Mouth to Nose.