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IV versus IO: Does your Site of Access Matter in Cardiac Arrest?

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Meyer MD Clinical Scenario You are dispatched to a 57-year-old male with a witnessed cardiac arrest and bystander CPR being performed. Your partner deploys the cardiac monitor and while CPR is continued you turn your attention to establishing vascular access. 1] Table from Hamam et al. 9] Figure from Clemency et al.

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How to Become a Paramedic in the Army

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These prerequisites include maintaining a valid EMT-B certificate or higher, successfully completing a CAAHEP-accredited education program within the past 2 years, maintaining valid CPR-BLS credentials or their equivalent, and successfully completing the cognitive and psychomotor examination portions of the NREMT-P curriculum.

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Cardiac Care Show – Episode 1: Mechanical CPR

ECG Medical Training

Cardiac Care Show – Episode #1: Mechanical CPR Hello, and welcome to the Cardiac Care Show. In today’s episode I’d like to talk about mechanical CPR, which is a frequent topic of conversation in the Resuscitation group on Facebook and the #FOAMed community on Twitter. So, mechanical CPR is a no-brainer, right?

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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A 12-year-old male is being transported by ambulance after a road traffic accident. Intensive Care Research , 1 (3-4), pp.60-64. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ). Epub 2014 Sep 9. 2013 Jan;31(1):222-6. His name is Ben. While waiting, another call comes in. Burgart, A.M. and Kanaris, C.,

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Major Trauma – Injuries by Assault

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Ali, a 12-year-old male, is pre-alerted by ambulance to ED. The pre-alert from the ambulance states his GCS is 12 (E3V4M5), moving all 4 limbs with an obvious large haematoma to the back of his head. E: Exposure and Environmental Control: Fully expose to check for other life-threatening injuries while maintaining normothermia.

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