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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!

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

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

If doing what was called "the one-man-band resurrection shuffle" [single person CPR in the back of a moving ambulance], this worked very well, as the bag would stay hanging there on the patient's face. How useful these would have been to let us know how well the patient was oxygenating and ventilating! Intraosseous Infusion.

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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. Tears welled up while doing so as I thought of my own toddlers. Stressors occur in both, but in different ways.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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. Committee on Shock. What were its recent antecedents? National Academies.

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Emergencies of the Third Trimester

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

All went well. 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. Not in the textbook, but it worked. Capriola, M.

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