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The Power Of A Nurse

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The engine is cut. From birth to now, each of us has been touched with the kindness and loving attention that a nurse has provided us. Most of all, though, I would like to salute the nurses who I have been fortunate to work beside for the past 23 years in our chaotic trauma center's ER. Lights are turned off.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

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Wood, director of Northeastern Universitys Extreme Medicine Certificate Program, says its important for people to recognize the signs of heat illness and how quickly heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke, when immersion in cold water is necessary to save lives. Heat stroke is the most serious heat illness, Wood says.

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