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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! This case comes from JoAnne Slinn.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Perhaps, not insignificantly, they were accustomed to receiving systematized government-supplied medical and trauma care, with "shock rooms" receiving an influx of victims, as contrasted to those later who opposed "socialized medicine." Organization and Specialization in Emergency Nursing. EDNA->ENA.

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

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

This ultimately led me through Boy Scout first aid; American Red Cross first aid; teaching first aid; ambulance work in the pre-EMT era; teaching in an early EMT class; Paramedic; and nursing as an Emergency Nurse. No priming allowed: the shock converted to unresuscitable asystole and the patient died.

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??I would have been thankful for, in days of yore …

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

An elderly lady in cardiogenic shock (BP 60/40) with no veins , I was lucky to get a 24-gauge PIV into the back of her wrist. All of The Editors, The Publisher, and Staff of Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal wish you a very happy time of thanksgiving and holiday celebration. Intraosseous Infusion. It was all she had.

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Time, the subtle thief of youth

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

" 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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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Committee on Shock. History of emergency medical services in the United States. Popularized extrication and spinal immobilization. Inspired much rescue training. National Research Council (US). Committee on Trauma, & National Research Council (US). Accidental death and disability: The neglected disease of modern society.

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Emergencies of the Third Trimester

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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. Capriola, M. Peripartum cardiomyopathy: a review. " Good Luck!

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