Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 A resuscitator is a device using positive pressure to inflate the lungs of an Syncope medicine unconscious person who is apnea not breathing , in order to keep them oxygen ated and alive. There are three basic types a manual version also known as a bag valve mask consisting of a mask and a large hand squeezed plastic bulb using ambient air, or with supplemental oxygen from a high pressure tank. The second type is a pulmonary or breath powered resuscitator. The first appearance of the second type was the White Pulmonary Resuscitator or W.P.R. introduced in 1981. The third type is an oxygen powered resuscitator. These are driven by pressurized gas delivered by a regulator, and can either be automatic or manually controlled. The most popular type of gas powered resuscitator are Time Cycled, Volume Constant Ventilators. In the early days of pre hospital emergency services, pressure cycled devices like the Pulmotor were popular but yielded less than satisfactory results. One of the first modern resuscitation ventilators was the HARV, later called the PneuPac 2R or Yellow Box. Most modern resuscitators are designed to allow the patient to breathe on his own should he recover the ability to do so. All resuscitation devices should be able to deliver 85 oxygen when a gas source is available. Response Considerations A manual resuscitator should be used on a victim only in an environment where the air is unquestionably safe to breathe. Spelling The misspelling rescuscitator is often encountered, due in no small part to the device being an important piece of rescue equipment. Category Medical equipment Medical equipment stub ... more details
The German engineer Dr. Holger Hesse , and his partner, Danish anaesthetist, Henning Ruben invented in 1956, the world s first non electric, self inflating resuscitator known as the Bag valve mask Ambu bag . The Ambu bag resuscitator revolutionized possibility of providing artificial respiration. Today the resuscitator is produced by the Ambu company , which still produces a wide range of single patient and multi use resuscitators. External links http www.bionity.com lexikon e Bag valve mask Life Science Encyclopedia, Bag valve mask http bja.oxfordjournals.org cgi content citation 35 11 748 The Ambu Resuscitator, British Journal of Anaesthesia Volume 35, Number 11 Pp. 748 http linkinghub.elsevier.com retrieve pii S0300957205000262 Resuscitation, Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages 253 256 Category Anesthesia Category German inventors ... more details
Infobox Company company name Ambu A S company logo File Ambu logo.gif company type Public company Public OMX CSE3331 AMBU B foundation 1937 location Copenhagen , Denmark key people N.E. Nielsen , Chairman br Lars Marcher , President & CEO br Anders Arvai , CFO industry Healthcare products Bag valve mask Ambu bag , Aura Laryngeal masks , aScope single use videoscope , Sensor Electrodes , Neuroline Electrodes revenue Image Green Arrow Up.svg 12px 715 million Danish kroner DKK 2006 2007 http finance.google.com finance?q AMBUB&hl en num employees 1.216 2008 homepage http www.ambu.com www.ambu.com Ambu A S OMX CSE3331 AMBU B , is a Denmark Danish company that develops, produces and markets diagnostic and life supporting equipment and solutions to hospitals and rescue services. Founded in Denmark in 1937 by German engineer Holger Hesse , Ph.D. who had the ambition of building a business dedicated to product developments which would contribute to the saving of human lives. The largest business areas are Respiratory Care, Cardiology and Neurology in which the most important products are ventilation products for artificial respiration and single use electrodes for ECG tests and neurophysiological mappings. The Ambu Bag The first of these a self inflating resuscitator designed in collaboration with Danish anesthetist Henning Ruben and marketed under the name Ambu was launched in 1956. The resuscitator was considered to be a milestone in emergency medical technique and quickly became established internationally. The name Ambu did as well, and was subsequently chosen as the new company name. Today, Bag valve mask Ambu resuscitators are in use all over the world in every emergency medical environment. The Ambu name has become an example of a Genericized trademark , as all manual bag resuscitators in medical settings are now often referred to generically as Ambu bags, even though Ambu brand resuscitator bags are still produced and other companies are not allowed to use the Ambu t ... more details
Image Ballon ventilation 1.jpg thumb 300 px A disposable BVM Resuscitator A bag valve mask , abbreviated to BVM and sometimes known by the proprietary name Ambu bag , is a hand held device used to provide positive pressure ventilation to a patient who is not breathing or who is breathing inadequately. The device is a normal part of a resuscitation kit for trained professionals, such as ambulance crew. The BVM is frequently used in hospital s, and is an essential part of a crash cart . The device is used extensively in the operating room to ventilate an anaesthetised patient in the minutes before a mechanical ventilator is attached. The device is self filling with air , although additional oxygen O sub 2 sub can be added. Use of the BVM to ventilate a patient is frequently called bagging the patient. ref name brady Daniel Limmer and Michael F. O Keefe. 2005. Emergency Care 10th ed. Edward T. Dickinson, Ed. Pearson, Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Page 140. ref Bagging is regularly necessary in medical emergency medical emergencies when the patient s breathing is insufficient respiratory failure or has ceased completely respiratory arrest . The BVM resuscitator is used in order to manually provide mechanical ventilation in preference to mouth to mouth resuscitation either direct or through an adjunct such as a pocket mask . History The bag valve mask concept was developed in 1953 by the German engineer, Dr. Holger Hesse, and his partner, Danish anaesthetist Henning Ruben, following their initial work on a suction pump. ref cite web publisher Ambu Ltd title Ambu s history url http www.ambu.co.uk uk about ambu ltd ambu C2 B4s history.aspx ref They named their resuscitator Ambu bag, and then formed their own company, also called Ambu company Ambu , to manufacture and market it, starting in 1956. This position as first to market has led to the name Ambu becoming ... checkout check sirb.html A free transparent reality simulation of the self inflating manual resuscitator ... more details
File SMTI Logo.jpg frame Crest of SMTI The SAF Medical Training Institute Abbreviation SMTI, Malay language Malay Institusi Latihan Perubatan Angkatan Bersenjata Singapura, Simplified Chinese has been the home and the cradle of the Singapore Armed Forces SAF medic since its early days as the Medical Orderlies Training School 1966 1968 and the School of Military Medicine 1968 2006 . SMTI s primary role is to provide training for medical vocationalists to meet the operational and peacetime requirements of the SAF, producing medical personnel e.g. Medical Officers, Dental Officers, Nursing Officers and Medics to attend to all the healthcare needs of SAF servicemen and servicewomen. The institute prides itself in equipping servicemen and servicewomen fresh from Basic Military Training Centre BMTC and Specialist Cadet School SCS with the knowledge and skills to operate as Combat Medics and Combat Medic Specialists. Trainees undergo a 12 week Emergency Medical Technician EMT programme which comprises theory and practical lessons on topics ranging from patient assessment to multiple casualty management in the military context, as well as the operating of medical equipment e.g. oxygen resuscitator , automated external defibrillator . Intravenous IV cannulation is a key competency and all trainees are required to perform a total of 10 successful live IV cannulations in order to graduate. Upon graduation, it is mandatory for Combat Medics and Combat Medic Specialists to pass the Annual Medic Proficiency Test AMPT during active service and the annual Medical Vocational Training MVT during Operationally Ready National Serviceman NSman service. SMTI also houses the Medical Response Force MRF , which is the medical arm of the SAF s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosive Defence Group CBRE Defence Group . Selected Combat Medics and Combat Medic Specialists go through a conversion course to be specially trained by the MRF to provide on site management to cas ... more details
Peacock date January 2011 John James born 1939 in Cardiff is a United Kingdom British poet. Biography John James was born 1939 in Cardiff and was educated at Saint Illtyd s College there. He left the college in 1957 to read Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Bristol and later undertook postgraduate studies in American Literature at the University of Keele . ref cite web url http www.saltpublishing.com writers profile.php?recordID 200047 title John James work Salt Publishing author date accessdate 29 January 2011 ref He was a founder of the poetry journal The Resuscitator in Bristol in 1963 ref name lilly cite web url http www.indiana.edu liblilly lilly mss html resuscitator.html title Resusitator mss work Lilly Library Manuscript Collections author date accessdate 29 January 2011 ref and became Arts Council Creative Writing Fellow, at the University of Sussex, 1978&ndash 79. He is the former Head of Communication Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and is married to fellow poet Wendy Mulford , with whom he has one child. ref name lilly James is an important figure of the post war British avant garde. A poet, he came to prominence in the 1970s and has been associated with the Cambridge School of poetry, though, importantly, not with the British Poetry Revival . However, the relationship to the Cambridge School would do more to annex James from the mainstream of British poetry than to truly characterise his output, and it would do James a disservice to limit his appreciation by coralling him too firmly within the avant garde he is a genuinely popular poet of considerable power and stands outside of, or rather traverses, British camps and schools of the 1970s and 1980s. His complexity and occasional gnomic later work is never beyond the bounds of a general reader and his excesses are a necessary feature derived from the social basis of much of the work, surveying Thatcher s Britain and the sense of decay and international relegation that ... more details
Following is a list of instruments used in the practice of anesthesia Expand list date July 2010 Instrument list class wikitable Instrument Uses ref Dorsch, Susan E. Dorsch, Jerry A. 1999 . Understanding anesthesia equipment. Baltimore Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 0 683 30487 9. ref ref Eisenkraft, James B. Ehrenwerth, Jan 1993 . Anesthesia equipment principles and applications. St. Louis Mosby. ISBN 0 8016 1556 9 ref Continuous flow anesthetic machine used to provide a measured and continuous supply of gases oxygen , nitrous oxide , etc , mixed with a required concentration of anesthetic vapor to the patient at a required pressure and rate vide link Anesthetic vaporizers vaporizes the anesthetic Oxygen mask to deliver oxygen or to administer aerosolized or gaseous drugs Nasal oxygen set to deliver oxygen Guedel airways ref http www.mediplusindia.com anaesthesia.htm ana1 Anaesthesia Nasal Oxygen set Oxygen Catheter Mask Airways Suction Catheter Bot generated title ref hard part of the airway maintenance that connects the mouth part to the pharynx pharyngeal part Suction catheter Suction catheters used to remove secretions from the mouth , oropharynx , Vertebrate trachea trachea and bronchii Peripheral venous catheter Water & sand weight bag Artificial resuscitator Bag valve mask manual ventilation Bain circuit respiratory maintenance circuit Laryngoscope used to view larynx including the vocal cords , the glottis , etc Endotracheal tube a tube introduced into the patient s Vertebrate trachea trachea to maintain a patient to ensure that air reaches the lungs for respiration physiology respiration Laryngeal mask airway LMA a less painful but less useful alternative to an endotracheal tube Tracheostomy tube it is a metal or plastic tube used to keep an artificial opening in front of the neck into the Vertebrate trachea trachea open to act as an alternative pathway for respiration vide tracheostomy Endoscopes to look inside the esophagus , stomach , upper intestines , bile ... more details
Infobox film name Magnificent Obsession image Magnificent obsession.jpeg caption Theatrical release poster director Douglas Sirk producer Ross Hunter writer Robert Blees starring Jane Wyman br Rock Hudson br Barbara Rush br Agnes Moorehead br Otto Kruger music Frank Skinner editing Milton Carruth cinematography Russell Metty released August 4, 1954 USA runtime 108 minutes country Film US language English Magnificent Obsession 1954 in film 1954 is a Universal International Pictures romantic feature film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson . The screenplay was written by Robert Blees and Wells Root , after the book Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas . The film was produced by Ross Hunter . Sirk sometimes claimed that the story was based distantly on the Greek legend of Alcestis . Plot Spoiled playboy Bob Merrick s Rock Hudson reckless behavior causes him to lose control of his speed boat. Rescuers send for the nearest resuscitator , located in Dr. Phillips s house across the lake. While the resuscitator is being used elsewhere, Dr. Phillips suffers a heart attack and dies. Merrick ends up a patient at Dr. Phillips s clinic, where most of the doctors and nurses resent the fact that Merrick inadvertently caused Dr. Phillips s death. Helen Phillips Jane Wyman , Dr. Phillips s young widow, receives a flood of calls, letters and visitors all offering to pay back loans that Dr. Phillips refused to accept during his life. Many claimed he refused by saying it was already used up. Edward Randolph Otto Kruger , a famous artist and Dr. Phillips s close friend, explains to Helen what that phrase means. This helps her to understand why her husband left little money, even though he had a very successful practice. Merrick discovers why everyone dislikes him. He runs from the clinic but collapses in front of Helen s car and ends up back at the hospital, where she learns his true identity. After his discharge, Merrick leaves a party, drunk. After runnin ... more details
Resuscitator Corp., a near bankrupt company. Emerson spent heavily to develop and produce both an improved ... began selling Heart Aide, after purchasing a large portion of Cardiac Resuscitator Corp. The company ... more details
CJ Free flow oxygen delivery using a T Piece resuscitator Arch Dis Child Fetal and Neonatal Edition ... determines pressures delivered on a T piece neonatal resuscitator. Arch Dis Child Fetal & Neonatal ... more details
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