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Elective Placement With The Air Ambulance: Reflective Account and Top Tips

Mind The Bleep

Through this role, as an observer, I was able to experience various pre-hospital emergencies; the most common scenarios I attended were cardiac arrests, but I also attended trauma patients at the scene of road traffic accidents, fractures in a wilderness medicine setting, anaphylaxis, and many others.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The desperate mask-ventilator would clasp the mask all the tighter, until it was removed, lips were parted and an oral airway inserted. Once an exhaust route is provided, expiratory airway obstruction cannot occur. Intracranial placement of a nasotracheal tube after facial fracture: a rare complication. Cover with antibiotic.