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Erratum in Mouth-to-Airway [adjunct]

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Emergency Airway, Ventilation, and Cardiac Resuscitation Anesth Prog. 1967 November; 14(9): 236–249. PMCID: PMC2235452 Sincerely, Tom Trimble, RN CEN All opinions are those of the author.

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Boating trauma

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JoAnne is a nurse (background in emergency nursing) and one of the Sim Knowledge Coordinators based at the Pritchard Simulation Centre in Kelowna, BC. JoAnne has her master of nursing degree and nurse practitioner designation and is passionate about all things sim! This case comes from JoAnne Slinn.

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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

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AHA gives focused recommendations ​. ​ ​​ The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) has for some years been meeting and agreeing upon resuscitation practices every five years; in addition to which there is the necessary slack time before and after each meeting to produce and disseminate the newly appropriate course materials.

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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

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ü With foresight, plan for your alternatives based upon what you have now , until the patient can be brought safely to conventional resuscitation room settings. Resuscitation, 56(1), 83-89. SGAs and some methods of intubation can be placed in the prone position. Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin, 30, 426-7. McClusky, S.,

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Ballistic Follies

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It is not possible during acute resuscitation or at any time before a complete investigation, or even trial, to know who is innocent, guilty, or what occurred during the altercation. Recovered projectiles are preferably handled with gloved fingers, rather than toothed forceps that may alter evidentiary striations. By John Fund.

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It’s EMERGENCY Nurse to you!

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It ' s EMERGENCY Nurse to you! In hospitals, the work role or function of nurses and other staff is usually (and traditionally) defined by place, e.g. : O.R.; Post-Anesthesia Care Unit; Delivery Room; Medical-Surgical Ward Nurse. Nurses'; L&D Nurses, Pediatric Nurses.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

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This is the fifth part of our series on "Early Modern Resuscitation." " Part I: Oral Airways, early resuscitation, and recognition of airway care. It was not a practical resuscitative aid until production could be commercially successful (~1895) and made portable in compressed form. Pulmotor is 1907. Beecher, M.