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Erratum in Mouth-to-Airway [adjunct]

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The reference that I had ordered arrived well after the posting. Emergency Airway, Ventilation, and Cardiac Resuscitation Anesth Prog. In the last blog entry, I expressed my belief that the Venti-Breather® was perhaps the commercial version of the Roswell Park Rescue Breathing Mask (sic) designed by James O. I was wrong.

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Boating trauma

EM SIM Cases

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!

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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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. Flexibility of mind and skill bodes well. Wiget, Urs & Torres, Eric. Resuscitation, 56(1), 83-89. Your team is prepared, and camaraderie is shared.

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Ballistic Follies

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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. If you think your patient is the perpetrator, he may well be an innocent, or even an off-duty or undercover officer. By John Fund.

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Emergency Medicine Case Study on Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity

AENJ: Current Issue

The purpose of this case study on local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST), a potentially life-threatening complication of local anesthetic, is to ensure that emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) are knowledgeable on this disease process. They should be knowledgeable of the steps to resuscitate a patient who may have severe LAST.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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.

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Carbon Dioxide As A Resuscitative Gas

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

This is the fourth part of our series on "Early Modern Resuscitation." " Part I: Oral Airways, early resuscitation, and recognition of airway care. The select bibliography will provide ample links to extend your reading. “Carbon Dioxide Resuscitation?” You think to yourself, “ What could that be?” In 1927, H.W.