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AHA and Red Cross Life Support Certifications Should Both Be Accepted

ACEP Now

In 2015, it introduced Basic Life Support (BLS) training and certification for EMS personnel. Scientific Rigor Red Cross resuscitation courses closely align with the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) recommendations. It also offers a comprehensive “CPR for the Professional Rescuer” course.

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Episode 14: Thoracotomy

PHEM Cast

pdf Equipment required for resuscitative thoracotomy: Surface anatomy: Appearance of pericardial clot A foley catheter being used to fill a cardiac wound – note how easily this could be pulled out. An open chest with aortic compression Simulation of resuscitative thoracotomy by London HEMS team. Resuscitation; 2011: 1194-1197

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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. Police officers have poor hit probability, ricochets may occur, suppressive fire may be used (“keep ‘em pinned down”), or even ‘spray and pray.”

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Trauma Resuscitation Updates

RebelEM

CRYSTALLOIDS Too much crystalloid resuscitation in traumatic hemorrhagic shock can increase dilutional coagulopathy, as well as increase morbidity and mortality Bickell WH et al. I recently gave a talk on the initial management of trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock. vs SBP target <90mmHg which resulted in a mortality of 33.4%

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EM@3AM: Hyperthermia

EMDocs

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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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. Pulmotor is 1907. Beecher, M.

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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. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr.