The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 31, 2021

As you wait for EMS to arrive, you quickly dash back to your car to retrieve your stethoscope and an angiocatheter you have in your glovebox. The previous studies also focused on homogenous populations like military members and are therefore less generalizable to the general population. Additionally,

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RebelEM

MARCH 13, 2023

Does the inclusion of patients pronounced dead on scene and the presence of a physician-based EMS organization affect the pooled mortality rate and survival with favorable neurologic outcomes for prehospital TCA? Subcategory data on EMS system type is still extremely variable, given the range of included EMS systems and regions.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Trimble, BVMs] Many physicians of this era had experience of WWII and Korean War military medicine; they were joined by younger men who used GI Bill benefits to enter medicine, and then honed their skills in Vietnam. Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care: WWII and Korean War military medical experience and progress.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Years before, he’d started his EM career as medical director of the ER at Memphis’ public hospital and Memphis Fire EMS. 1 “I remarked that EM was not even a specialty then, and suggested it might be an opportune time for an updated IOM report that examined the achievements and challenges of emergency care in the U.S.,”

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RebelEM

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Military practice guidelines recommend REBOA for profound shock (SBP <90mmHg) 1 and ACEP along with the American College of surgeons recommend REBOA for traumatic life-threatening hemorrhage below the diaphragm in patients with hemorrhagic shock who are unresponsive or transiently responsive to resuscitation. J Spec Oper Med.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MAY 3, 2014

Joseph Kreiselman’s portable concertina-like bellows was invented and deployed in the US military from 1943 followed by the UK’s Porton Resuscitator, postwar, from its secret chemical research facility and used industrially into the early 1960s. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr. AMBU Mark III (mil) RDIC resuscitator for U.S.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Police officers have poor hit probability, ricochets may occur, suppressive fire may be used (“keep ‘em pinned down”), or even ‘spray and pray.” ET Hostile Fire Environments Murphy’s Law of Combat Operations [includes coarse military humor] Firearms in the Entertainment Industry International Movie Firearms Database Horman, GS.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

JULY 10, 2016

Joe Lex, MD, just retired from Temple University in Philadelphia after 50 years of working his way up in Emergency Medicine, from a Vietnam Medic, to EMS, Nursing, Medicine, and Emergency Medicine. Thus, military necessities generated for some the social mobility and respect that gave them a leg up in the world.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

APRIL 8, 2014

It is a curious paradox of history that Nerve Gas was the product of agricultural research by the burgeoning chemical industry in Germany in the latter 19 th and early 20 th centuries, and that modern understanding of resuscitation came from WWII military investigations (Edgar A. Training in Ambulance and Emergency Programs McMahon, Martin C.

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 16, 2023

We’ll keep it short, while you keep that EM brain sharp. A 34-year-old male is brought via EMS after collapsing during an outdoor adventure race. EMS reports the patient was conscious but altered, with slurred speech and confusion. football players, military). Point of care glucose in the field was 102 mg/dL.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

For example, EMS personnel, certified nursing assistants, and medical assistants could reduce the nursing work burden for tasks such as drawing blood, hanging simple fluids, placing IVs, and other tasks. military facilities. Some hospitals have already embraced the concept of nursing extenders.8

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

1955 **The advancement of resuscitation within field military medicine. Automatic transport ventilator versus bag valve in the EMS setting: a prospective, randomized trial. Study finds EMS able to do more tasks, document better, perform physiological monitoring, with use of ATV. Martin, Lawrence, M.D. Filbrun, T., Copass, M.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

MARCH 7, 2025

Military Application of Tranexamic Acid in TraumaEmergency Resuscitation (MATTERs) Study. 2022.01.069 The post TXA (Tranexamic Acid) in Pediatrics appeared first on Pediatric EM Morsels. 2011 Mar26;377(9771):1096-101, 1101.e1-2. PubMed: 21439633] Morrison JJ, Dubose JJ, Rasmussen TE, Midwinter MJ. 2012 Feb;147(2):113-9.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

Their focus was on developing a refined technique suitable for mass usage by the military who funded them and by the lay public. We’ve heard, or been through, tales of early EM when BNTI was the fall-back for awkward intubations before EM could claim credentialing for RSI. Should EMS Use Nasotracheal Intubation?

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