Basic Oxygenation
Describes the basics of administering oxygen to patients. Describes the use of both high and low flow delivery devices: Nasal cannulae, simple masks, venturimasks.
Basic clinical skills: urethral catheterization
This program demonstrates and describes the process for performing a urethral catheterization. Both intermittent straight catheters and indwelling retention catheters are shown and discussed. The need for patient educati..
Battle Cry: Challenges Facing Lincoln in the Fall of 1862
The Republicans retain their majority in the mid-term elections of 1862 despite Democratic gains. Lincoln continues to have difficulties with inept generals. After Antietam, Lincoln fires McClellan who seems more intere..
Battle Cry: Civil War Spills into Western Territories
States and territories in the American West, embedded in controversy leading up to the Civil War, are removed from the major fighting. Both North and South seek access to California gold, but when Confederate soldiers ma..
Battle Cry: Need for Manpower, The
As the conflict continues, the North and the South sustain severe losses of military personnel. The Confederates had already instituted a draft in the spring of 1862, but now it becomes necessary for the Union to take si..
Battle Cry: North and South Seek Support from Foreign Governments
The military initiative in the Civil War lies mainly with the North. Its task is to defeat the Confederacy; the South needs only to avoid defeat. Diplomatically the situation is reversed. The South must enlist the recogn..
Battle Cry: People at War
Military history is about the experience of people at war, not just armies or generals. There are few aspects of society that are not affected. Women, for example, become heads of households, a difficult position particu..
Battle Cry: Politics of Emancipation, The
In 1862 President Lincoln's Cabinet urges him to wait for victory in the war with the Confederacy before issuing Emancipation Proclamation. Lee invades Maryland, hoping that victories in the Eastern Theater will convince..
Battle of the brains: the case for multiple intelligences
For decades, IQ tests have been the gold standard for measuring intelligence. But is one standardized test really adequate for every taker? This program advocates a different approach, creating an array of unusual challe..
Battling eating disorders:
Anorexia and other eating disorders exert a frightening degree of control over millions of teenagers, especially young women. Manifested in so-called "Pro-Ana" websites, which actively promote anorexia, bulimia, and bing..