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Hyperoxia: Too Much of a Good Thing

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The optimal Fio2 during the immediate period after cardiac arrest is still debated. The Emergency Medicine Resident Blog. Emergence Phenomena blog. The association between hyperoxia and patient outcomes after cardiac arrest: analysis of a high-resolution database. Emergency Medical Education blog.

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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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NALOXONE ACCESS: Good News and Bad News

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However, “Hands-only" is more appropriate for a “sudden-death” cardiac event (the heart stops first in an oxygenated body), whereas an hypoxic-anoxic state from respiratory arrest would benefit from artificial respiration –a different scenario entirely, wherein the body runs out of oxygen before the heart stops.

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Emergencies of the Third Trimester

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Maternal cardiac arrest: a practical and comprehensive review. Cardiac arrest in pregnancy: increasing use of perimortem caesarean section due to emergency skills training? Status Asthmaticus in Pregnancy from Life in the Fast Lane Literature Review by Dr Chris Nickson NEW Link added after initial posting of blog.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

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The “automatic resuscitators” of yore, which alternated pressure-cycled positive and negative pressure, or steady flow, and provided suction by oxygen venturi (rapidly depleting the oxygen tank), lost place in the market when condemned as incompatible with external cardiac massage. Time 24:05 Respiratory and Cardiac Arrest: No.