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Interhospital Transfer Capabilities Still Pose Major Issues

ACEP Now

3 The additional lengthy ED stays for transfer patients are equally resource-intense for emergency physicians and especially emergency nurses. The state of Georgia has developed and funded a coordinating center for patient movement and EMS communications on hospital capabilities ( [link] ).

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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The following quotes from the ILCOR and AHA documents, under fair-use doctrine, will help summarize for you the changes. " EMS-DELIVERED CPR: CONSENSUS ON SCIENCE. Omitted for brevity, please see original document. This year has five BLS changes for adults, and one for children. "2017 Recommendations—Updated 1.

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Ballistic Follies

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It is critically important to document the physical findings in a plain-seeing, plain-speaking, non-judgmental manner that will not color or taint future investigations. Accurate time entries are important to document. Natural psycho-physiological responses may alter perceptions during the life-threatening event. By John Fund.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Advocacy for Trauma Care and EMS Development. Organization and Specialization in Emergency Nursing. Emergency Medicine Specialization, Recognition, and Organization. Development of EM Residencies. Organized EM supporting Rapid Sequence Intubation and other airway advances. Advanced Emergency Nursing Blog.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Ambulances and emergency medical care. Relatively early account of then status of prehospital care, before EMS movement took place. Documents improvements in BVMs previously investigated and found deficient in FIO2. Classic pre-EMS document describing rescue care by rural volunteer squads. Abdo Khoury, M.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Accessed July 28, 2014 **Quoting original documents of fascinating history. Automatic transport ventilator versus bag valve in the EMS setting: a prospective, randomized trial. Study finds EMS able to do more tasks, document better, perform physiological monitoring, with use of ATV. Grainge, C. Filbrun, T., Copass, M.

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The Emergency Department Admitting Team: A Crisis Response to an Unprecedented Surge of Critically Ill Patients During COVID-19

EM Updates

Emergency nursing, technician, and clerical staffing was unchanged compared to usual staffing for the zone, with far higher patient:nurse ratios than allowable in a proper ICU, as all other critical care resources were engaged on the units and were not available to assist in the direct care of these patients.