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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Most airway management is done with the patient supine and on a table. Importantly, you should practice airway support and BVM facing the patient "from the south" (facing cephalad). You may be assisting an airway manager (who's in the vertex position) who needs extra jaw thrust or lift. Smally, A.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

They also proved that only expired air resuscitation guaranteed sufficient inflation volumes; that exhaled air was a suitable resuscitating gas; and that the operator would have continuous feedback from each breath. March, 2002) Emergency Care Essentials: 'Nasal Intubation Strategies'. Advances in prehospital airway management.