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CRNA Helped Save Martin Luther King’s Life After 1958 Stabbing

Daily Nurse

In the December 2015 issue of the AANA Journal , she shared her recollections** of that September 20, 1958, day when King was rushed to Harlem Hospital. A special thank-you to Ebony magazine for saving and sharing the 2015 AANA story on Brangman.

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Meet Nicole Reid, Poison Control Nurse

Minority Nurse

This was the average prognosis in 2015 – but no one has an expiration date stamped on them. I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator. I have Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (IPAH), a rare lung disease that ultimately leads to heart failure and death.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. Julien: It’s a good question. How do I reconcile these two issues? Lauren: Shock.

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

Titration of ventilation settings, CRRT troubleshooting, vasopressor management, and supporting loved ones, all the while trying to manage documentation and patients who are critically unwell or aggressive as a result of ICU delirium. It’s an honour and a calling. Roman | ED Nurse.

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