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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. Preoxygenation, reoxygenation, and delayed sequence intubation in the emergency department.

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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.