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Early Modern Resuscitators

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Although told several times, the story of the development by Henning Ruben of the prototypical modern manual resuscitator, the self-refilling bag with unidirectional non-rebreathing valves which now dominate the world of resuscitation, is still not well-known. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr.

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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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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

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The latter 1950s and 1960s, quested for nerve gas defense studying expired air resuscitation and modern resuscitology; developing intensive care units. To me, it harkens a new scientific renaissance of resuscitation science, emergency care, and creating systems for care. 1950s & 1960s Resuscitation Research.

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Sir William Osler, and, “f/11, and be there … “

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") This, in a sense, is an allegory to the realities of emergency care. Compare the possibilities of cardiac arrest resuscitation survival while in the Cardiac Cath Lab, the witnessed versus unwitnessed cardiac arrest in the ED, or the witnessed versus unwitnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Have I seen changes?

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Time, the subtle thief of youth

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" Having a " Take Your Daughter To Work Day " conveys little, and necessarily is as sanitized beyond recognition as the silly 'medical' and 'emergency' dramas on television. How great must be her shock. My own career includes both prehospital and in-hospital care. Stressors occur in both, but in different ways.

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Emergencies of the Third Trimester

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Emergency department evaluation and management of peripartum cardiomyopathy. The Journal of emergency medicine, 36(2), 141-147. An obstetric emergency called peripartum cardiomyopathy! Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 3(1), 39. Reid, C (2011) Prehospital resuscitative hysterotomy op.cit. EMCrit.org.

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ED Airway Control —When Two Lives Are At Stake!

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When: The patient needs airway control for resuscitation of mother or child, emergent surgery for maternal or fetal indications; block cannot be effected or would be unsafe. The concept of post-mortem caesarian delivery is being supplanted by ante -mortem resuscitative uterine extraction to save both mother and child.