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BCLS

 
basic cardiac life support.

BCLS

abbreviation for basic cardiac life support.

life support

Any technique, therapy, or device that assists in sustaining life.
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ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT: Mannequin used for training

advanced cardiac life support

Abbreviation: ACLS
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ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT: Mannequin used for training
1. The resuscitation of dying patients. ACLS involves management of the airway, reestablishment of breathing, and the restoration of spontaneous heart rhythm, blood pressure, and organ perfusion. It begins with the recognition of cardiac or respiratory emergencies, and includes cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, endotracheal intubation, oxygenation and ventilation, medications for restoring normal cardiac rhythms and cardiac output, cardiac pacing (when needed), and post-resuscitation care. It may begin in the out-of-hospital setting or take place in the hospital. See: illustration
2. See: Advanced Cardiac Life Support
See: basic cardiac life support; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; emergency cardiac care

Advanced Medical Life Support

See: Advanced Medical Life Support

advanced trauma life support

Abbreviation: ATLS
1. Treatment for managing a critically injured patient.
2. See: Advanced Trauma Life Support

basic cardiac life support

Abbreviation: BCLS
The phase of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiac care that either (1) prevents circulatory or respiratory arrest or insufficiency by prompt recognition and early intervention or by early entry into the emergency care system or both; or (2) externally supports the circulation and respiration of a patient in cardiac arrest through CPR. When cardiac or respiratory arrest occurs, basic life support (BLS) should be initiated by anyone present who is familiar with CPR.
See: advanced cardiac life support; bag mask device; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; emergency cardiac care; Heimlich maneuver

basic life support

Abbreviation: BLS
1. A level of out-of-hospital emergency service.
2. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
See: defibrillation; defibrillator

Basic Trauma Life Support

See: Basic Trauma Life Support

pediatric advanced life support

Abbreviation: PALS
The treatment, including basic and advanced life support, for stabilizing a critically ill or injured child.

prehospital trauma life support

See: Prehospital Trauma Life Support

withholding life support

See: withholding life support

basic cardiac life support

Abbreviation: BCLS
The phase of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiac care that either (1) prevents circulatory or respiratory arrest or insufficiency by prompt recognition and early intervention or by early entry into the emergency care system or both; or (2) externally supports the circulation and respiration of a patient in cardiac arrest through CPR. When cardiac or respiratory arrest occurs, basic life support (BLS) should be initiated by anyone present who is familiar with CPR.
See: advanced cardiac life support; bag mask device; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; emergency cardiac care; Heimlich maneuver
See also: life support
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Adding to his responsibilities as Manager of BCLS, he accepted an invitation to become a member of Sarawak's Council Negri (Legislative Council).
The nucleus of pre-occupation Sarawak Administrative Service officers returning to Sarawak with the BMA, together with those being released from internment and from overseas, coupled with reinstitution of the civil administration of the pre-occupation Council Negri and Supreme Council, provided a continuity in governance familiar to returning BCLS senior staff and personnel.
1) By then BCLS had offices in Kuching, Sibu, Sarikei, Binatang, Miri, Kuala Belait, and Brunei, as well as its forestry operations in the Rejang (BCL Sarawak Branch--Annual Report for year ended 31 March 1941).
3) BCLS personnel included indigenes, mainly Iban, employed in their Rejang Timber Concession.
The Borneo Company Limited, Sarawak, Japanese Occupation 24 December 1941 To 11 September 1945
Martine suggests that availability of this fertiliser led to BCLS applying for the Poak Concession, a long rectangular strip of land covering some 8,100 hectares southeast of Bau.
BCLS exported its produce under its own name and the planting and fertilizing methods and procedures developed at the Poak Concession by BCLS were "largely responsible for giving Sarawak White Pepper .
The Rajah granted BCLS the sole right to all gutta rian trees, both wild and planted, to the company in the vicinity of Poak on 8 July 1901.
On 8 July 1901 BCLS was granted the sole right to all "India Rubber trees" both wild and cultivated, "in the vicinity of Poak" and by 1904 had planted 284 hectares, increasing to 607 hectares by the end of 1907 (Martine 1946:40).
The Borneo Company's role in the economic development of Sarawak during the Brooke dynasty: Part III: up to the Japanese occupation of Kuching on 24 December 1941
The effect on Sarawak's gold exports of the major changes during the BCLS monopoly over gold mining and working is shown below:
69) BCLS held the rights to develop the oil deposits at Miri under the existing mineral lease on which an annual royalty payment of 1,000 [pounds sterling] would apply.
BCLS formally ends its interests in mineral mining and processing in Sarawak
Around 1914 BCLS carried out some excavation work at Subur Buan near Bau, but there are no records of any mineral recovery, the only evidence being "now merely a pond" (Martine 1946:16).
The Borneo company's role in the economic development of Sarawak during the early years of the Brooke dynasty: part II

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