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THE NEW BLS GUIDELINES FOR 2010 FROM AMERICAN HEART

2010 Health Care Provider Guidelines Video from AHA: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1304230741322

Get your glasses. That said, most are small print and it IS the small print that will get you into trouble. B)

Pennsylvania's BLS Protocols recognise that CPR on an exsanguinated victim is useless: CARDIAC ARREST – TRAUMATIC STATEWIDE BLS PROTOCOL Criteria: A. Patient unresponsive, pulseless, and apneic/agonal breaths when acute traumatic injury is the cause of the cardiac arrest. Exclusion Criteria...

Who says you have to roll it in the extended position? They do not tip either.

Now that is funny! :) How many times have I seen them do it because they were uncomfortable doing it from the left side of the patient or during a switch. @#$% that I am, I made them do it from both sides.

So you were in the 82nd ABN? My brother was in the duece and another brother was in the Ranger Bn before he came to SF with me. I did all my time in the 7th SFG(A) at Bragg and Panama. I figured I would throw up my EFMB as my avatar rather than Sr. parachutist wings. We all start out as...

I am still under 5 posts so I can not PM. Maybe now I can.

This IS the kind of information for which I am making this inquiry.

Sweet. It is the studies for which I am searching.

What you told me is what I have been told countless times, I am looking for the science behind it. Although my protocols no longer metion "burping", you telling me to do it does not get me off the hook. I would still need medical command to authorize it or get a paramedic with a needle...

Where do I find the "science" behind 3 sided vs. 4 sided occlusive dressings? My state protocol is tape 3 sides and the military TCCC is 4 sided occlusion with needle decompression. Does it really "burp" when an Asherman is used or does it just clog with clotted blood?