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Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting in Pittsburgh: Preparedness, Prehospital Care, and Lessons Learned [PDF]
, 2020 On Saturday, October 27, 2018, a man with anti-Semitic motivations entered Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he had an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and three handguns, opening fire upon worshippers. Eventually
Murray, Keith +4 more
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Prevention of infection and disruption of the pathogen transfer chain in elective surgery [PDF]
, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused us all to stop our normal activities and consider how we can safely return to caring for our patients. There are many common practices (such as an increased use of personal protective equipment) which we are all familiar ...
Chisari, Emanuele +5 more
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A brief history of the tourniquet [PDF]
Journal of Vascular Surgery, 2012 Abstract : The tourniquet is a device first used in antiquity; it has been praised or vilified throughout the ages, as it has been at times life-saving, and at other times limb-threatening.1 It interestingly has become a widely used tool in the current wars of Afghanistan and Iraq by most coalition medics, often with great success.
David R. Welling +4 more
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Tourniquet in knee surgery [PDF]
British Medical Bulletin, 2014 The tourniquet is a surgical device composed of a round pneumatic cuff in which air at high pressure can be inflated with an automatic programmable pump to avoid bleeding and technical impediment.Comprehensive searches of Medline, Cochrane and Google Scholar databases were performed for studies regarding tourniquet application in arthroscopic and open ...
Vincenzo Denaro +6 more
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Haemorrhage control of the pre-hospital trauma patient. [PDF]
, 2014 . This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original ...
B Sorensen +5 more
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Treating symptomatic uterine fibroids with myomectomy: current practice and views of UK consultants [PDF]
, 2017 Background: The demand for uterus-sparing treatments is increasing as more women postpone childbirth to their 30–40s, when fibroids are more symptomatic.
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THE TOURNIQUET IN SURGERY [PDF]
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume, 1962 The history of surgery is to a large extent written around the record of its technical advances. A pneumatic tourniquet is a humble instrument, when compared with many of the more complicated mechanical devices in the modern operation theatre. Nevertheless, it has played a significant role in making possible the precise operations of present-day ...
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