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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

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How versatile are your airway skills? 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). A Tight Squeeze Airway management for the limited-access patient. NREMT (2008).

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Ten Commandments for Emergency Professionals; a compendium

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The ten commandments of emergency medicine. Annals of emergency medicine , 20 (10), 1146-1147. Ten commandments of burn management Gupta J L. Ten commandments of burn management. NHS Airway The Ten Commandments of Airway Management Slovis, C. Simple lessons to guide oxygenation & ventilation.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

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Automatic transport ventilator versus bag valve in the EMS setting: a prospective, randomized trial. Study finds EMS able to do more tasks, document better, perform physiological monitoring, with use of ATV. Annals of emergency medicine, 14(11), 1085-109 **Support for prehospital ETI. Filbrun, T., Augustin, C., & Nick, T.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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Buffington] NTI largely supplanted by RSI: Current resuscitation practice focuses on the oral route for airway management and intubation. We’ve heard, or been through, tales of early EM when BNTI was the fall-back for awkward intubations before EM could claim credentialing for RSI. Be alert to changes in waveform.