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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

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Trimble, BVMs] Many physicians of this era had experience of WWII and Korean War military medicine; they were joined by younger men who used GI Bill benefits to enter medicine, and then honed their skills in Vietnam. Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care: WWII and Korean War military medical experience and progress.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

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Joseph Kreiselman’s portable concertina-like bellows was invented and deployed in the US military from 1943 followed by the UK’s Porton Resuscitator, postwar, from its secret chemical research facility and used industrially into the early 1960s. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr. Ambulances and emergency medical care.

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Ballistic Follies

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Police officers have poor hit probability, ricochets may occur, suppressive fire may be used (“keep ‘em pinned down”), or even ‘spray and pray.” ET Hostile Fire Environments Murphy’s Law of Combat Operations [includes coarse military humor] Firearms in the Entertainment Industry International Movie Firearms Database Horman, GS.

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Why is there a firehose of information from which to drink?

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Joe Lex, MD, just retired from Temple University in Philadelphia after 50 years of working his way up in Emergency Medicine, from a Vietnam Medic, to EMS, Nursing, Medicine, and Emergency Medicine. Thus, military necessities generated for some the social mobility and respect that gave them a leg up in the world.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

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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. Training in Ambulance and Emergency Programs McMahon, Martin C.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

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1955 **The advancement of resuscitation within field military medicine. 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. Martin, Lawrence, M.D. Filbrun, T., Copass, M.

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ED Boarding

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An immediate step would be the federal government working from the top down with local regulatory bodies to adopt new scopes of practice for workers and delegate some, less complex, currently nurse-only, tasks to others. Some hospitals have already embraced the concept of nursing extenders.8 military facilities.