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About the Author
Judy
Boehm, RN, MSN, is a cardiac clinical nurse specialist living now
in Bradenton, Florida.
Beginning in 1975 she worked
as CNS for the cardiac units at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
in Lebanon, New Hampshire, retiring in early 2006. Since the
formation of the CPR Committee in 1983, she was active in
establishing policies and procedures for resuscitations, translating
resuscitation research into practice, selection of/training in
emergency equipment, life support education, and CPR data
collection/ analysis.
Judy received her MSN from University of Alabama, and
her BSN from Case Western Reserve University. She enjoys
playing golf with her husband, walking her Golden Retriever, and
learning about tropical plants.
email the author: [email protected]
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Welcome to Code
Communications, ZOLL's online
resuscitation newsletter for hospital clinicians. Each month we will explore a new topic in the field
with an emphasis on practical solutions for changing practice and
improving outcomes.
We have a special edition this month. Judy Boehm has been the author and editor of Code Communications since January 2005, shortly after her retirement from the Dartmouth – Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Judy has now decided to retire permanently and is giving up her work with this valuable newsletter. This is her last issue. All of us at ZOLL wish Judy all the best and know that her faithful readers will miss her detailed treatment of key topics in resuscitation. Please join us in offering best wishes to Judy for a wonderful retirement and a hole in one!
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When participating in a resuscitation, all thoughts and actions of the health care providers are devoted to saving a life - not on preventing infection in themselves. But you can set up processes of care so that good infection control principles are followed by all. The first half of this article speaks to underlying principles of infection control: methods by which infections are transmitted, infectious diseases that are of concern in the hospital setting, and a summary of Standard Precautions along with the three types of Transmission-Based Precautions. In the second half of the article, infection control measures that should be applied to all resuscitations are reviewed, followed by an in-depth discussion of how resuscitation is altered in the presence of Airborne Precautions. The article ends with suggestions on how to promote adherence to infection precautions during resuscitations. Read more...
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Call for Authors
While we know that Judy will be impossible to replace, we are hopeful that there are readers who would like the opportunity to submit an article for publication in Code Communications. As such we are now soliciting papers for publication in Code Communications. Guidelines for manuscript format and guidelines for submission and compensation are located at www.zoll.com/authors. We welcome articles on topics of interest for either pre-hospital and in-hospital caregivers.
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