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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

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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. NREMT (2008).

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Ten Commandments for Emergency Professionals; a compendium

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Emergency Medicine Journal , 25 (12), 824-826. Ten commandments of burn management Gupta J L. Ten commandments of burn management. NHS Airway The Ten Commandments of Airway Management Slovis, C. Higginson, I., Belsham, P., Hicks, A., & Boon, D. Simple lessons to guide oxygenation & ventilation.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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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. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH Trauma Airway Management J Emerg Med. Advances in prehospital airway management.