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AHA and Red Cross Life Support Certifications Should Both Be Accepted

ACEP Now

Instead of actors, Red Cross training videos use actual physicians, nurses, and support staff to demonstrate clinical decision making and teamwork. Initial Rollout America’s Military Health System (MHS) was the first major organization to adopt Red Cross ALS and PALS training. The transition began in January 2019.

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Boots on Ground: Lessons Learned from Trauma Nurse Turned EM Doc

FEMinEM

Few of us would thrive in EM if we did not have some sense of the value of teamwork. In Afghanistan, I worked with many military EM physicians—most of them men—who commanded their traumas much like an admiral would address his troops. The memory I have just recounted stood out as a representation of this notion.

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