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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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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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 26, 2023

Whilst waiting for an operation, they need to be managed medically. Too much pulmonary blood flow and we will see well-oxygenated blood ( SpO2 >85% ) but insufficient systemic blood flow (pallor/mottling, cool peripheries, delayed capillary refill time, weak pulses, hypotension, narrow pulse pressure) and hypoxia (lactic acidosis).

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Operations Research Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Hospitals 128

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

APRIL 29, 2024

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses must prioritize their employees’ and customers’ safety and well-being. 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.

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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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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. Take a break.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 4, 2017

A systematic review by the authors of the present study confirmed a possible benefit of the pan scan, but it showed a need for a well-designed, large, prospective randomized clinical trial with patient oriented outcomes ( Sierink et al 2012 ). The NNT varied from 17 to 32 according to the injury severity. Reference: Sierink et al.

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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. H Spontaneously breathing carbon dioxide waveforms where phase III is not well delineated. 2013;118(1):192-201. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e318278c8b6

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AED Leader

JULY 10, 2024

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses must prioritize their employees’ and customers’ safety and well-being. Its user-friendly interface and intuitive design make operating easy, even for individuals with little medical training. Q: Is the Heartsine Samaritan Pad 350P suitable for businesses with multiple locations?

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EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

Nachi: This month’s team parsed through roughly 1200 articles as well as guidelines from the eastern association for surgery in trauma also known as EAST. But don’t be reassured by normal vitals, especially in the young, who may be compensating well despite being quite ill. Nachi: Definitely. for pericardial effusion. Jeff: Exactly.

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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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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

APRIL 8, 2014

The idea of placing one's mouth on the mouth of an apparently dead victim, particularly where the mouth may be covered with foam, mucus or blood, as often the case in asphyxia victims, as well as the fear of possible transmittal of disease is revolting to the average person and is difficult to overcome." Bauer, Robert O. Tercier, J.

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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%. Loss of psychological safety and mental well-being persist long after the episode and can impact future episodes of care. Exposure to incivility hinders clinical performance in a simulated operative crisis.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 26, 2023

A cardiac family history should of course be sought, but think a little outside the box as well. On arrival at hospital the child was well with normal observations. Mum (first aid trained) gave back blows and started CPR. The Fontan circulation was an operation initially developed around 50 years ago to treat tricuspid atresia.

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EKG/ECG Hospitals Shock Documentation/Coding 98

Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 3, 2023

There was no difference between the low-dose and high-dose insulin infusion groups regarding the time to resolution of hyperglycaemia, time to resolution of acidosis as well as the rate of blood glucose change. Because of the retrospective nature of the study, the decision to use the bougie was operator-dependent. Low-dose ( 0.05

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CPR Airway Management Emergency Department Resuscitation 52

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. How useful these would have been to let us know how well the patient was oxygenating and ventilating!

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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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