Posted on September 17, 2007 by jeffd
The New England Journal of Medicine in their Videos in Clinical Medicine section have released a video that covers performing positive pressure ventilation with bag-valve and face mask.
This video demonstrates how to perform orotracheal intubation. Specific indications are discussed, along with contraindications, troubleshooting, and complications.
Specific topics covered in the video include:
Overview
Indications
Contraindications
Equipment
Procedure
Complications
The video can be viewed [...]
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Posted on March 29, 2007 by jeffd
Worldwide somewhere between 5% and 10% of all newborns require some form of resuscitation. There continues to be questions about how much oxygen should be used during neonatal resuscitation. Despite over 50 years experience of oxygen therapy in neonates, the use of oxygen in neonates, especially premature neonates is not well understood. We still don’t [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2006 by jeffd
The US National Institutes of Health gathered an expert panel a little while ago to review medical literature on the risks of caesarean sections in healthy women. A decade ago 20% of the babies born in the United States were by caesarean section and today it is around 305, and lots of other countries are [...]
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