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Hyperoxia: Too Much of a Good Thing

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For babies born at term, it is best to begin resuscitation with room air rather than 100% oxygen. Any supplementary oxygen administered should be regulated by blending oxygen and air, using oximetry to guide titration okf the blend delivered.” The Emergency Medicine Resident Blog. Emergence Phenomena blog. Roberts, JR.

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

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Readers of this blog may have read of the death of Dr. Peter Josef Safar in 2003, who is often called "The Father of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation," or noted citations of his work in articles written and references given by me here at AENJournal.com and the Advanced Emergency Nursing Blog. Advanced Emergency Nursing Blog.

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Erratum in Mouth-to-Airway [adjunct]

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In the last blog entry, I expressed my belief that the Venti-Breather® was perhaps the commercial version of the Roswell Park Rescue Breathing Mask (sic) designed by James O. I was wrong. I worked from a contemporary faulty memory. The reference that I had ordered arrived well after the posting. Elam ’s references include: "1.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

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Still, except for the public hospital, other hospitals did little emergency work and would have unattended first aid or treatment room in which one could meet one's physician or have an intern provide care in the meanwhile. To me, it harkens a new scientific renaissance of resuscitation science, emergency care, and creating systems for care.

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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

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Let's look at the early expired air resuscitation adjuncts! LeFanu, James (1997) Hero who put himself through hell The Sunday Telegraph 16 February 1997 **Blog recounting Pask's intrepidity and personal experimentation. " "…In Comes the Good Air" Part II: Mouth-to-Mouth Method. ." Comroe, Jr. Comroe Jr, J.H.

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Ballistic Follies

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Projectiles do not travel in a straight line, neither in air nor through human tissue. Do not compromise your care. Bullets, splinters, secondary missiles, do not discriminate or have a conscience; there is no self-destruct for a projectile in flight –it will not care whom it hits or discern if it was deserved or not.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

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Ruben’s insistence upon including a portable foot-operated aspirator did much to establish portable suction, not requiring power or oxygen supply, in field care. " Part I: Oral Airways, early resuscitation, and recognition of airway care. Anaesthesia and intensive care, 38, 10-15. Ambulances and emergency medical care.