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Koalas and Crime Scenes Here’s a wild one for your next trivia night: koalas have fingerprints that are nearly identical to humans. Seriously, if you put a koala and a human fingerprint under a microscope, even the most seasoned forensic scientist might scratch their head in confusion. These ...

Dec 23, 2024

ResusNation #95

Just Add Pee, To The Seeds In the shadows of ancient pyramids, Egyptian physicians developed an intriguing method of pregnancy testing that would puzzle scientists for millennia. Written in papyrus scrolls dating back to 1350 BCE, this technique directed women to urinate on two bags of seed...

Dec 16, 2024

ResusNation #94

Mistletoe: From Magic Medicine to Holiday Makeouts Have you ever wondered why... we're all so keen to smooch under a parasitic plant? Grab your hot cocoa, because this story is juicier than your office holiday party gossip. Picture this: It's not your company Christmas party, but a moonli...

Dec 09, 2024

ResusNation #93

The History Of Epi In Arrest Ever wonder why... ...we give exactly 1mg of epinephrine during cardiac arrest? The story begins in the 1960s, when researchers working with dog models of asphyxia discovered that epinephrine improved survival. The drug's effects were compelling: through alpha-adr...

Dec 04, 2024

ResusNation #92

The Dark Truth About the Creepy Beak Mask During the Black Death of the 14th to 17th centuries, plague doctors became a haunting symbol of the pandemic. These physicians donned long, beaked masks that seemed macabre by today’s standards, but they were an early attempt at personal protective equ...

Nov 26, 2024

ResusNation #91

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

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