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  2. Pediatric advanced life support - Wikipedia

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    Pediatric advanced life support (PALS) is a course offered by the American Heart Association (AHA) for health care providers who take care of children and infants in the emergency room, critical care and intensive care units in the hospital, and out of hospital (emergency medical services (EMS)). The course teaches healthcare providers how to ...

  3. Pediatric assessment triangle - Wikipedia

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    The Pediatric Assessment Triangle or PAT is a tool used in emergency medicine to form a general impression of a pediatric patient. [1] In emergency medicine, a general impression is formed the first time the medical professional views the patient, usually within seconds. [ 2 ]

  4. Chain of survival - Wikipedia

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    Over the years, the American Heart Association has added two new links to the chain: post-resuscitation care in 2010, [7] [3] and physical and emotional recovery in 2020. [4] Also in 2020, the American Heart Association issued a new pediatric chain of survival for infants, children, and adolescents. [8]

  5. ABC (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The ABC system for CPR training was later adopted by the American Heart Association, which promulgated standards for CPR in 1973. As of 2010, the American Heart Association chose to focus CPR on reducing interruptions to compressions, and has changed the order in its guidelines to C irculation, A irway, B reathing (CAB).

  6. American Heart Association - Wikipedia

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    The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke.

  7. This contestant's hilarious wrong answer mishap comes about a month after a contestant named Will tried to solve the puzzle “Give yourself a round of applause” by guessing “Treat yourself a ...

  8. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Wikipedia

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    Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure consisting of chest compressions often combined with artificial ventilation, or mouth to mouth in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest.

  9. Apgar score - Wikipedia

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    The Apgar score is a quick way for health professionals to evaluate the health of all newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth and in response to resuscitation. [1] It was originally developed in 1952 by an anesthesiologist at Columbia University, Virginia Apgar, to address the need for a standardized way to evaluate infants shortly after birth.