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  Improving Emergency Airway Care at a Critical Access Hospital

  Mitchell, Kelly (University of Alaska Anchorage, 2020-12-01)

  Emergency airway care is of the highest priority in caring for patients arriving at the emergency department with critical injuries and conditions. Intubation via laryngoscopy is the gold standard for placing an endotracheal tube to manage ventilation. In rural areas, emergency airway care is often the responsibility of non-expert providers who rarely have the opportunity to perform this life-saving procedure. These less experienced providers often take a longer time and make more attempts at endotracheal intubation. Multiple attempts and increased time taken to secure an airway are associated with higher morbidity and mortality. A critical review of the literature supports that video laryngoscopy increases first pass endotracheal intubation success. Video laryngoscopy is associated with faster intubation times and an improved view of glottic structures. This evidence-based quality improvement project implemented training and simulation in the use of video laryngoscopy for non-expert providers. After implementation of this quality improvement project, findings demonstrated an improved confidence with use of video laryngoscopy, increased confidence that video laryngoscopy is associated with improved visualization of glottic area and increased confidence associated with first pass of the endotracheal tube in non-expert providers using laryngoscopy to perform endotracheal intubation.
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  Getting started with the ContentDM Project Client part 5: Adding files to your project

  Schmuland, Arlene B. (2021-03-02)

  This is the fifth part of a five-step tutorial on setting up the software for participation in the Alaska's Digital Archives project. It describes how to add the files (images, audio, documents, etc.,) to a project in preparation for attaching descriptive metadata to those files. Part 1 is the steps that must be complete prior to installing the software, Part 2 is installing the software, Part 3 is Creating a project, Part 4 is Setting up a project.
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  Getting started with the ContentDM Project Client Part 4: setting up your project

  Schmuland, Arlene B. (2021-03-02)

  This is the fourth part of a five-step tutorial on setting up the software for participation in the Alaska's Digital Archives project. It describes the steps that must be completed to fill in the default information that will apply to all files added to the project. Part 1 is the steps that must be complete prior to installing the software, Part 2 is installing the software, Part 3 is Creating a project, Part 5 is Adding files to a project.
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  Getting started with the ContentDM Project Client part 3: Creating a project

  Schmuland, Arlene B. (2021-03-03)

  This is the third part of a five-step tutorial on setting up the software for participation in the Alaska's Digital Archives project. It describes the steps that must be completed to create a project: the function within the ContentDM software that allows you to attach metadata to files. Part 1 is the steps that must be complete prior to installing the software, Part 2 is installing the software, Part 4 is Setting up a project, Part 5 is Adding files to a project.
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  Getting started with the ContentDM Project Client Part 2: installing the software

  Schmuland, Arlene B. (2021-03-03)

  This is the second part of a five-step tutorial on setting up the software for participation in the Alaska's Digital Archives project. It describes the steps to download and install the software. Part 1 is the steps that must be complete prior to installing the software, Part 3 is Creating a project, Part 4 is Setting up a project, Part 5 is Adding files to a project.
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  Getting started with the ContentDM Project Client Part 1: The things you need to do ahead of time

  Schmuland, Arlene B. (2021-03-02)

  This is the first part of a five-step tutorial on setting up the software for participation in the Alaska's Digital Archives project. It describes the steps that must be completed before downloading the software. Part 2 is installing the software, Part 3 is Creating a project, Part 4 is Setting up a project, Part 5 is Adding files to a project.
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  Diaries of Archaeological Expeditions to Alaska with the Smithsonian's Aleš Hrdlička in 1936, 1937, and 1938

  Veltre, Douglas W.; May, Alan G. (2021-01)

  For three summers in the late 1930s, Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, the preeminent physical anthropologist in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, led expeditions to southwestern Alaska to investigate the earliest peopling of that region. Curator of Physical Anthropology at the U.S. National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the acknowledged “founding father” of physical anthropology in the United States sailed north with small crews of young men—whom he called his “boys”—in the summers of 1936, 1937, and 1938 to probe ancient villages, camps, and burial places on Kodiak Island and throughout the Aleutian Islands. Only one member of his crews took part in all three of these expeditions—Alan G. May. While nearly everyone who knew Hrdlička recognized him to be a kind and often generous scientist of world renown, albeit an elite and difficult taskmaster, May developed an affection for him and an interest in Alaskan archaeology that brought him back on each summer’s venture. For his part, Hrdlička considered May to be his “best man.” Most important, unlike Hrdlička’s other crew members, May kept detailed and lengthy diaries of each summer’s thoughts and experiences. Those documents, presented here, offer insights into both May’s own character as well as his personal perspective on—as Aleš Hrdlička has recently been called—“a most peculiar man.” May’s diaries have been transcribed, edited, and made available through Archives and Special Collections, University of Alaska Anchorage/Alaska Pacific University Consortium Library (henceforth, the Archives), with the support of the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, the not-for-profit Alaska Native Corporation for the region. In this introduction, I offer some brief historical context to those diaries. I begin with background on Hrdlička, including his place in the discipline of American anthropology and his interest in Alaska studies. Next, I outline the significance of the Kodiak Island and Aleutian Islands region to Hrdlička. This is followed, based in part on my personal association with him, by notes about Alan May and his participation in Hrdlička’s research in Alaska. Following this, I outline the three expeditions and their participants. Finally, I offer observations on May’s diaries and the manner in which they are presented here. --Douglas W. Veltre, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage
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  Emerging Anthropogenic Influences on the Southcentral Alaska Temperature and Precipitation Extremes and Related Fires in 2019

  Berman, Matthew; Schmidt, Jennifer; Bhatt, Uma S.; Lader, Rick T.; Walsh, John E.; Bieniek, Peter A.; Thoman, Richard L.; Borries-Strigle, Cecilia; Bulock, Kristi; Chriest, Jonathan; et al. (MDPI, 2021-01-17)

  The late-season extreme fire activity in Southcentral Alaska during 2019 was highly unusual and consequential. Firefighting operations had to be extended by a month in 2019 due to the extreme conditions of hot summer temperature and prolonged drought. The ongoing fires created poor air quality in the region containing most of Alaska’s population, leading to substantial impacts to public health. Suppression costs totaled over $70 million for Southcentral Alaska. This study’s main goals are to place the 2019 season into historical context, provide an attribution analysis, and assess future changes in wildfire risk in the region. The primary tools are meteorological observations and climate model simulations from the NCAR CESM Large Ensemble (LENS). The 2019 fire season in Southcentral Alaska included the hottest and driest June–August season over the 1979–2019 period. The LENS simulation analysis suggests that the anthropogenic signal of increased fire risk had not yet emerged in 2019 because of the CESM’s internal variability, but that the anthropogenic signal will emerge by the 2040–2080 period. The effect of warming temperatures dominates the effect of enhanced precipitation in the trend towards increased fire risk.
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  Northern Light, volume 3, number 1

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1990-09-17
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  Northern Light, volume 5, number 22

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1993-04-13
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  Northern Light, December 6, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-12-06
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  Northern Light, November 23, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-11-23
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  Northern Light, November 15, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-11-15
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  Northern Light, November 8, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-11-08
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  Northern Light, November 1, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-11-01
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  Northern Light, October 25, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-10-25
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  Northern Light, October 18, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-10-18
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  Northern Light, October 11, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-10-11
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  Northern Light, October 4, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-10-04
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  Northern Light, September 27, 1999

  Union of Students, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999-09-27

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