Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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How to Perform CPR on a Child: 10 Steps
Important: Please note that this article is not a substitute for CPR training but provides vital information that could save a child’s life if help, in any form whatsoever, is not available. Time is very important when dealing with an unconscious infant who is not breathing. Permanent brain damage begins after only 4 minutes without oxygen, [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, MISCELLANEOUS, Nursing in a Different Land, Personal Stories, STORIES
“House Arrest”
It was a lazy monday morning in ER. I was not supposed to be in the morning shift but asked to do so since we have 3 staffs scheduled for ACLS training. I don’t have routine checking assignment since I’m not included in the original list of staffs on duty. For this reason, I voluntarily [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, MISCELLANEOUS, Personal Stories, STORIES
ICU Nurse: Playing GOD
The routine assessments and activities of an ICU Nurse may come to be so technical and may look so easy to some if not most of the others. Taking hourly vital signs. Measuring patient input and output. Tube feeding. Positioning patient here and there. Daily baths in bed. Bedmaking. Just to name a few. But [...]
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Community, Medical Information, Medical Related, TIPS
“SAVING A LIFE”: Techniques on How to Perform Modified CPR
You are walking at the park and suddenly a man collapses. What will you do? An ordinary person with no training can increase the person’s chance for survival… The American Heart Association concluded that a modified CPR can save more lives. You don’t have to do mouth to mouth which frets most people. By just [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, MISCELLANEOUS
Cooling and Saving Lives (Induced Hypothermia)
The patient was only 18 years old; much too young to die. “Oscar” just wanted to get some extra money for a date with his girlfriend of six months. But he fell off the ladder while at his construction work after a live electric cable rendered him unconscious and stopped his heart. His co-workers had confirmed that he fell onto a tent. There was no head injury but the electric shock caused his heart to go into ventricular fibrillation.
