AED Leader

MAY 5, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at some of the critical features of Zoll AEDs: Zoll AED 3 : The Zoll AED 3 is a compact, user-friendly defibrillator that provides real-time CPR feedback and guidance. It features a high-resolution color touchscreen display, making it easy to navigate and operate during an emergency.

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AED Leader

APRIL 30, 2024

Here are some key features that make the Heartsine 350P AED an excellent choice for schools: Simple and Intuitive Operation The Heartsine 350P AED is designed with simplicity in mind. In a high-stress situation, having a device that is easy to operate can significantly save a life.

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AED Leader

JULY 10, 2024

It features advanced rescue capabilities and real-time CPR feedback, ensuring optimal performance during an emergency. Defibtech Lifeline View : The Lifeline View is a portable AED that provides clear visual instructions and real-time feedback on CPR performance. Its compact size and durability make it suitable for travel.

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AED Leader

MAY 8, 2024

Its user-friendly design, the DBP 2003, ensures that responders can operate the device confidently and efficiently, even under stressful circumstances. These training programs cover all aspects of defibrillator operation, including proper placement of electrodes, CPR techniques, and advanced features.

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AED Leader

JUNE 2, 2024

The device is designed to be intuitive and easy to operate, even for individuals with no prior medical training. The HeartSaver AED also provides real-time feedback on CPR quality, helping users deliver effective chest compressions. Philips offers training programs and resources to educate users on proper use of AED and CPR techniques.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 19, 2024

Children in the validation cohort were admitted to the intensive care unit or operating room less frequently than those in the derivation cohort. CASP checklist for Clinical Prediction Rule (CPR) studies Is CPR clearly defined? Yes Did the population from which the rule was derived include an appropriate spectrum of patients?

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AED Leader

JULY 9, 2024

Equipped with advanced features such as dual-language functionality and CPR feedback, it ensures that rescuers can confidently perform life-saving measures. It features a simple two-button operation and provides real-time CPR feedback to assist rescuers in delivering effective chest compressions.

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AED Leader

JUNE 17, 2024

In a high-stress situation, having an AED that can be easily operated by anyone without medical training is crucial. These devices provide real-time feedback on the quality of CPR, ensuring that users can provide the best possible care until professional medical help arrives.

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PulmCCM

JUNE 5, 2023

Read in Journal of Critical Care ECMO vs CPR for pre-hospital resuscitation after cardiac arrest. Most health systems haven’t done the operations work (including paying for people and technology) to build robust screening programs, and physicians haven’t been pushing hard for it either.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 26, 2023

Whilst waiting for an operation, they need to be managed medically. The underlying heart defect determines the precise operation performed – you might have heard of the Norwood procedure , an example used for HLHS specifically. Six hours post-operatively, they become more mottled, with weak pulses – signs of poor systemic perfusion.

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Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

JULY 23, 2023

Ventilators are used in operating rooms, emergency departments, critical care transport units, and air medical transports. Ziqitza Health Care operates the ALS and BLS ambulances for various purposes under their 108 , 102 and 1298 helpline numbers. They also trained with basic first-aid treatments and training like CPR to save lives.

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AED Leader

JULY 1, 2024

Its user-friendly design ensures trained professionals and laypersons can confidently operate it during an emergency. However, to maximize its effectiveness, it is essential to receive appropriate training on CPR and AED usage. Q: Is the LifePak 100 suitable for use on children or infants?

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AED Leader

MAY 9, 2024

Intuitive User Interface The Lifepak 100 features an intuitive user interface that makes it easy for anyone to operate without medical training. Additionally, it features a bright visual display that provides real-time feedback and prompts, ensuring that the user can perform CPR and defibrillation accurately.

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AED Leader

JULY 7, 2024

Here are some key reasons why AED training is crucial for travelers: Immediate Response: AED training equips you with the skills to recognize the signs of cardiac arrest, call for help, and initiate CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) while waiting for emergency medical services to arrive.

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AED Leader

APRIL 26, 2024

Many organizations offer CPR and defibrillator training courses, ensuring you have the necessary skills to save a life. This is especially important in high-stress situations when every second counts.

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AED Leader

APRIL 29, 2024

Following these prompts, anyone can effectively administer CPR and deliver a shock if necessary. The device should have clear voice prompts, visual instructions, and intuitive operation. These devices provide clear and concise voice prompts and visual instructions to guide the user through resuscitation.

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PulmCCM

MARCH 11, 2024

Ascension is a $27 billion, 140-hospital conglomerate operating in 19 states—the third largest system in the U.S The results: The added palliative care did not result in any significant improvement in length of stay, in-hospital mortality, reduced ICU transfers, ICU mortality, use of CPR or mechanical ventilation.

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AED Leader

JUNE 11, 2023

Both of the Philips models that we stock use the same battery: the Philips HeartStart battery (M5070A).

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 10, 2023

They’re getting CPR. Then the patient is rapidly moved to the operating theatre. The effects of aviation-style non-technical skills training on technical performance and outcome in the operating theatre. You’ve heard the phrase code black before – it’s a traumatic cardiac arrest. …You burst into resus. 2009;18(2):109.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 4, 2017

Outcome: * Primary: In-hospital mortality at initial hospital or secondary hospital if transfer occurred * Secondary: 24 hour and 30 day mortality, imaging time, time to diagnosis, length of stay (LOS) in the trauma room or ICU, number of days of mechanical ventilation.

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Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

to divert the plane). Lane & Mcdonough Definition of an immediate whole body CT (iWBCT) scan Shortly after patient arrival.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Safar's work, in a series of studies and papers, validated manual methods of opening the airway, in use by anesthesiologists but relatively unknown outside the operating room, as effective and able to be taught and used by lay people. Safar, the early years 1924–1961, the birth of CPR." In collaboration with Asmund S. Baskett, P.

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PHEM Cast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Qvigstad et al showed in again in Resuscitation in 2013, confirming inter-individual variation in effectiveness of CPR using ETCO2 as a surrogate for CO Trauma Deakin et al. (J. trauma 2004) showed that end-tidal CO2 may be of value in predicting outcome from major trauma (19). 2013;118(1):192-201. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e318278c8b6

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AED Leader

JULY 10, 2024

Its user-friendly interface and intuitive design make operating easy, even for individuals with little medical training. CPR Feedback and Guidance Performing adequate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is crucial in increasing the chances of survival for a person experiencing SCA.

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RebelEM

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Comparator: The control group received standard care provided at a major trauma center, including intubation, blood product transfusion, interventions like tourniquet application, and early operative or endovascular hemorrhage control. The enrolled population was severely injured, with a median ISS of 41, and 23% received CPR.

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EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

In one RCT, the FAST exam reduced the time from arrival in the ED to operative care by 64% in the setting of trauma. Nachi: This is all well and good, and certainly accurate, but let’s not forget that hemodynamically unstable trauma patients, like those with myocardial rupture, need to be in the operating room, not the CT scanner.

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RebelEM

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In fact, 4000 paramedics in total were not only trained in the study protocol but also given a rigorous evaluation of their ability to perform CPR. On the topic of EMS and similar to the pilot study, there was an incredibly high amount of bystander CPR performed. Thus limiting the external validity of this paper’s findings.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Awake fiberoptic intubation where the patient consents, co-operative AND the airway is prepared with local anaesthesia. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ). When there is an immediate threat to life (e.g., in cardiac arrest where the time taken to site a line may lead to preventable neurological damage).

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 17, 2024

A third RCT demonstrated that even brief low-level incivility could increase the risk of major error during CPR by up to 66%. Exposure to incivility hinders clinical performance in a simulated operative crisis. Interestingly, those exposed to incivility in the latter trial were unaware of a drop in performance. 2020 Jan 1;35(1):70-6.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

APRIL 8, 2014

The lips of the dead and the ‘kiss of life’: the contemporary deathbed and the aesthetic of CPR. Artificial Respiration by Mouth-to-Mask Method — A Study of the Respiratory Gas Exchange of Paralyzed Patients Ventilated by Operator's Expired Air. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(5), F369-F373. Tercier, J.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 26, 2023

Low risk BRUE: Age >60 days Gestational age >32/40 Post conceptual age >45 weeks First episode No CPR given (by a trained medical provider) No concerning history or examination findings (eg FHx sudden cardiac death) Where the above features are present then investigation and hospital stay can be limited.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 3, 2023

Because of the retrospective nature of the study, the decision to use the bougie was operator-dependent. Reviewed by: Roberto Segura and Mel Ranaweera Article 3: Does hand position affect CPR quality in young children? Similarly, CPR-related injuries couldn’t be assessed for. Consequently, the success rate could be biased.

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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. We were even more exotic, with 15 mm endotracheal tube connectors fitted in ours.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

It wrongly frightened some medical personnel as it was operated by a 50 psi wall source or from a step-down regulator from a tank (some thought the patient received wall 50 psi or 1500 psig from the tank directly to the lung. In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

APRIL 1, 2017

Be ready to perform CPR. Children 1 year and up, unconscious – CPR: start CPR with chest compressions (do not perform a pulse check). Steady the operating hand by placing your hypothenar eminence on the child’s zygoma or temporal scalp, to avoid jutting the instrument into the ear canal with sudden movement.

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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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