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Intubation

PHEM Cast

Guidance documents College of Paramedics Statement on Intubation, available here. Positioning From: [link] Recommended Rich Levitan resources Podcast 70 – Airway Management with Rich Levitan Airway axes From: McGuire B, Hodge K. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2012; Volume 60, Issue 6, Pages 749–754.e2

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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

How versatile are your airway skills? Pull out the manikins (or use a volunteer; BVM only) and run some awkward codes! 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).

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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. Jeff: And if it does happen to be an ALS transport crew, without delaying transport, pain management with fentanyl is both safe and reasonable and preferred over morphine. Jeff: Great point.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Accessed July 28, 2014 **Quoting original documents of fascinating history. Study finds EMS able to do more tasks, document better, perform physiological monitoring, with use of ATV. Airway management by first responders when using a bag-valve device and two oxygen-driven resuscitators in 104 patients. Grainge, C.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Buffington] NTI largely supplanted by RSI: Current resuscitation practice focuses on the oral route for airway management and intubation. Confirming endotracheal placement: In addition to the usual required methods and documentation, remember that, most likely, your patient will still be breathing. Always be gentle! Rogue Medic.