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Interhospital Transfer Capabilities Still Pose Major Issues

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Transferring patients from one ED to another hospital is an established part of emergency medicine practice. Patients who need inpatient services do not match the index hospitals’ capabilities, or the patient requests such a transfer, or the hospital has no available inpatient space. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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"The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial." [Hamlet]

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These include, but are not limited to the following: · Persons dying within 24 hours of admission to the hospital, or not medically attended by a physician within 24-hours of the time of death, unless the attending physician has established a natural cause of death. · California Government Code Section 27491 - 27504.1. MS, JD, RN.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

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Still, except for the public hospital, other hospitals did little emergency work and would have unattended first aid or treatment room in which one could meet one's physician or have an intern provide care in the meanwhile. ." Organization and Specialization in Emergency Nursing. EDNA->ENA.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

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image of Fell-O'Dwyer apparatus.) Wellcome Library Movies of Artificial Respiration (hospital-based) from 1940s showing in six parts several methods in context of anaesthesia training. < Documents improvements in BVMs previously investigated and found deficient in FIO2. History of emergency medical services in the United States.

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When will it be? And, why? -- The Silver Tsunami of Nursing

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But the admitted patient 'without a bed" could not go upstairs to a lower ratio unit (Tele or ICUs) until a bed there was available, so the patient remained at 1:4, unless tying up the Code Room at 1:1. The only options for respite were to take a leave of absence or accept a lower % appointment: i.e,

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

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It was extremely well-liked by field personnel, but virtually unknown in hospitals. The antipathy between field personnel with demand valves and hospital staff with bags was so great that there was seldom any agreement. Accessed July 28, 2014 **Quoting original documents of fascinating history. Grainge, C. Bogetz, M. Copass, M.

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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

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The following quotes from the ILCOR and AHA documents, under fair-use doctrine, will help summarize for you the changes. No prospective study of in-hospital CPR compares delivery of ventilations during continuous manual chest compressions with ventilations delivered during pauses in manual chest compressions.

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