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You Won't Believe How Anesthesia Was Discovered We often take for granted... ...how modern surgery functions with anesthesia, yet the development of modern anesthesia stands as one of medicine's most transformative yet serendipitous discoveries. While Japan's Dr. Seishū Hanaoka created the f...

Nov 18, 2024

ResusNation #90

What's President Eisenhower Have To Do Blood Clots? In the 1920's North Dakota farmers noticed their herds were mysteriously dying from internal bleeding after eating moldy sweet clover hay. This led scientist Karl Paul Link and his team at the University of Wisconsin to investigate, eventu...

Nov 11, 2024

ResusNation #89

The Freedom House Ambulance The Freedom House Ambulance Service, operating in Pittsburgh from 1967 to 1975, was a groundbreaking initiative that transformed emergency medical care in America. Founded through a collaboration between Freedom House Enterprises, a civil rights organization, and Dr....

Nov 04, 2024

ResusNation #88

Angels of the Battlefield: From Rome to Napoleon Later in the newsletter, Steve Schauer talks about trauma in the combat zone. With so much medical care being rendered by medics, we should take some time and look at the history of medics. The history of military medics dates back to ancient c...

Oct 28, 2024

ResusNation #87

Drowsy Driving by the Numbers Later in this newsletter, Colin McCloskey's presents a talk entitled the "Sleepwalking Resuscitationist" and one part that really startled me were the rates of falling asleep at the wheel. A startling 68.9% of nurses report struggling to stay awake while driving ...

Oct 21, 2024

ResusNation #86

How An Awkward Moment Led To A Medical Innovation In the bustling streets of early 19th-century Paris, a young doctor named René Laennec found himself in quite a predicament. It was 1816, and he was examining a young woman with heart problems. The standard practice of the day? Placing one's ea...

Oct 14, 2024

ResusNation #85

That Mistake Was A Ringer! Have you heard the story of how lactated Ringer's came to existence. In the 1880s, British physiologist Sydney Ringer was studying isolated frog hearts, attempting to determine what physiologic fluid would allow them to continue beating outside the body. He conducted...

Oct 07, 2024

ResusNation #84

I Love These Amazing Little Creatures Last month, while hiking in Zion National Park, I had an amazing encounter that left me in awe. As I paused on a steep trail, surrounded by towering red cliffs, a flash of emerald caught my eye. There, hovering inches from my face, was a tiny hummingbird, it...

Sep 30, 2024

ResusNation #83

What ResusX:ReUnion Has Taught Me I've been running medical education conferences for a very long time and they have all been very rewarding, but this last conference was different. We ran our 5th annual ResusX conference in Philly from Septebmer 16-20. There were four pre-conference workshops ...

Sep 23, 2024

ResusNation #82

ResusX Starts Today! ResusX kicks off today and I'm very excited to meet the ResusNation members at the conference. This week has been crazy in preparation for the conference so this newsletter is a little "lighter" than normal but I had to keep our 82 week newsletter streak going! On that note...

Sep 16, 2024

ResusNation #81

Are Three ❤️'s Better Than One? Did you know that octopuses have not one, not two, but three hearts? This incredible adaptation helps these fascinating cephalopods thrive in the depths of our oceans. Two of these hearts, called branchial hearts, are dedicated to pumping blood through the gills, ...

Sep 09, 2024

ResusNation #80

Is That A Mouse in Your Mouth? Who knew mice could moonlight as medical marvels? Ancient Egyptians certainly did, popping dead mice into their mouths to ease toothaches. Yes, you read that right—mice as dental care! It sounds bizarre, but back then, it was considered a practical solution for a p...

Sep 02, 2024

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