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  • Children are more likely to arrest due to a lack of oxygen or hypotension than a cardiac cause

    Children are more likely to arrest due to a lack of oxygen or hypotension than a cardiac cause

     

    Smith, G. 2015. Prevention of cardiac arrest and decisions about CPR, Available Online: https://www.resus.org.uk/resuscitation-guidelines/prevention-of-cardiac-arrest-and-decisions-about-cpr/#decisions (Accessed 02/05/2018)

  • How do I get the ventilator off the racks?

    How do I get the ventilator off the racks?

    If you’ve ever felt the frustration of being a student on Day 1 and having to retrieve the ventilator for your crewmate, you might enjoy this GIPHY.

     

  • The Discovery of Negative and Positive Pressure Ventilation – Fast Fact

    The Discovery of Negative and Positive Pressure Ventilation – Fast Fact

     

    ‘He opened the chest of a live animal and noted that air rushed in and the lungs collapsed, following which the heart stopped’ (Baker, 2016: 3).

    His experiment was actually repeated in 1667 by one Robert Hooke. He used positive pressure ventilation to keep a dog, whose chest had been opened, alive. This was ‘the first demonstration that it was the gas entering and leaving the lungs which supported life and not the movement of the lungs themselves’ (Baker, 2016: 3-4).

    This was one of many discoveries that birthed the idea of positive pressure ventilation, the understanding of negative pressure ventilation and the various forms of artificial ventilation that followed.

     

    Reference

    Baker, D. J. 2016. Artificial Ventilation: A Basic Clinical Guide, Springer International: Switzerland.

  • Paediatric History Taking Tip

    Paediatric History Taking Tip

    Reference

    Newell, S.J. And Darling, 2014. J.C. Paediatrics: Lecture Notes, Ninth Edition, John Wiley & Sons: West Sussex

  • UK Teenage Pregnancy Rates

    UK Teenage Pregnancy Rates

    teenage pregnancy

    Reference:

    Newell, S.J. And Darling, 2014. J.C. Paediatrics: Lecture Notes, Ninth Edition, John Wiley & Sons: West Sussex

  • Nice to Know Stats about Britain’s Children

    Nice to Know Stats about Britain’s Children

    Reference

    Newell, S.J. And Darling, 2014. J.C. Paediatrics: Lecture Notes, Ninth Edition, John Wiley & Sons: West Sussex

  • Remember the Red Book

    Remember the Red Book

    Reference:

    Newell, S.J. And Darling, 2014. J.C. Paediatrics: Lecture Notes, Ninth Edition, John Wiley & Sons: West Sussex

  • 15 Percent of 7 Year Olds ‘Have Eczema, Asthma or Hay Fever’

    15 Percent of 7 Year Olds ‘Have Eczema, Asthma or Hay Fever’

    Reference:

    Newell, S.J. And Darling, 2014. J.C. Paediatrics: Lecture Notes, Ninth Edition, John Wiley & Sons: West Sussex

  • We interrupt these licensed images posts with…

    We interrupt these licensed images posts with…

    Article 999, being a website designed to provide reasonably trustworthy answers to paramedic/EMT questions, along with fast facts and a soon to be launched video library, normally abides by the academic, very legal, I’m-spending-far-too-much-a-month-on-good-design-and-royalty-free-photos, but not today. Today, we bring you an incredibly useful alternative to the Wong-Baker FACES pain scale (Wong-Baker Faces, 2016), the ‘highly unofficial LEGO Pain Assessment Chart’ by Life of Dad (Moles, 2014).

    Perhaps otherwise known as a gentle criticism to the Wong-Baker (2016) scale, I thought Article 999’s image collection would go amiss without this attractive alternative:

    https://www.lifeofdad.com/more-proof-that-everything-is-better-with-lego/

     

    If you want to find this scale on the go, simply type in Article 999’s search box, FACES, pain scale, or Lego. Go ahead, try it*

     

    *Obviously not endorsed by any organisation. The image’s usefulness is judged by this paramedic alone.

     

    References

    Moles, Jason (2014) More Proof that Everything is Better with Lego, Available Online: https://www.lifeofdad.com/more-proof-that-everything-is-better-with-lego/ (Accessed 09/09/2017)

    Wong-Baker FACES (2016) Wong-Baker FACES Foundation, Available Online: http://wongbakerfaces.org/ (Accessed 09/09/2017)

  • By 5 Years Old 7 Percent of Children Have Had a Seizure

    By 5 Years Old 7 Percent of Children Have Had a Seizure

    Reference:

    Newell, S.J. And Darling, 2014. J.C. Paediatrics: Lecture Notes, Ninth Edition, John Wiley & Sons: West Sussex