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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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Three Ways for Emergency Medicine Docs to Practice Mindfulness

ACEP Now

While there has been ample discussion of “the practice of mindfulness” in health care workers that improves mental well-being, when do we have this time? However, expressing genuine gratitude for yourself and others is powerful for your mental and physical well-being. However, they should not define our wellness. Cogn Ther Res.

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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. 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. It was extremely well-liked by field personnel, but virtually unknown in hospitals. 1955 **The advancement of resuscitation within field military medicine. Martin, Lawrence, M.D. 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.