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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A 2012 study on paediatric patients showed that approximately 42% were intubated without medications, and 2% were intubated with paralysis only in the ED. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ). Key take-home points While Ben’s case is tragic, we can learn important points about airway management.

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Episode 26 – Blunt Cardiac Injury: Emergency Department Diagnosis and Management (Trauma CME)

EB Medicine

Moreover, when airway management is needed, advanced airway techniques by ALS crews were associated with decreased odds of survival. The Western Trauma Association broadens the ED thoracotomy window a bit to include anyone with no signs of life but less than 10 minutes of CPR. Jeff: Great point.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR. Airway management by first responders when using a bag-valve device and two oxygen-driven resuscitators in 104 patients. It was extremely well-liked by field personnel, but virtually unknown in hospitals. Kramer, B.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Advantages included: a good seal by a rescuer with a small mouth and a victim with a large mouth; excellent patency of the upper airway using head tilt and chin lift to tension the pharyngeal dilating muscles of the neck; gastric insufflation was less likely with the nasal cavities moderating the force of the airflow. Brown III, MD, Ali S.