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This.
They don't teach pocket mask in AHA HCP BLS. Not that I remember and I've taken it a few times...
We still teach it and have to test students out on it.
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This.
They don't teach pocket mask in AHA HCP BLS. Not that I remember and I've taken it a few times...
I do agree with being aware of options. Where I work it'd be pretty rare to not have enough hands around to have a two person BVM going.
When I've had to start bagging in the back with no FF on board (or on scene and fire isn't there yet) I take a BVM mask, my silly little demand valve "ventilator" and attach the circuit to the mask and set it then hold the mask with two hands while the vent cycles at the set RR/TV.
Also our CPAP masks are compatible with these circuits as well and I've had good luck with that with conscious patients that needed PPV and weren't nauseous or actively vomiting. Then I don't even have to hold anything.
We still teach it and have to test students out on it.
We're very small. Typically it's one EMT and the ambulance driver on runs.
We're very small. Typically it's one EMT and the ambulance driver on runs.
"Codes" originating from airway embarrassment are much more "salvageable" than codes originating from lethal MI, or series of MIs. However, pumping away and ignoring that cocktail weeny wedged by the epiglottis just evened out the playing field to about 0%.
Throwing the BS flag on this.This.
They don't teach pocket mask in AHA HCP BLS. Not that I remember and I've taken it a few times...
Throwing the BS flag on this.
Feel free to check out the AHA CPR guidelines here http://www.evms.edu/media/evms_publ...r_life_support/AHA_SKILL_CHECK_SHEETS_ALL.pdf under step 4, after minimizing interruptions.
I'm not saying I would be ever using one in the field, but it is taught in class, and you should be proficient in it if you have a valid AHA HCP card.
btw we don't get the FD on cardiac arrests. usually a 2 person BLS crew and a 2 person ALS crew.
... Work a few messy arrests, and you'll learn the very last thing you want to do is get your face right next to the chum fountain.
This is Limmer, Emergency Care 12th Edition.. I remember that I highlighted it, because I didn't think it was right.. But it did come up on the test. I keep a pocket mask with an O2 port in my First Responder bag.. I haven't used it yet.
In one, I saw an oxygen setup that was quite dangerous and went looking for it as an example here. Well, today on one of my Respiratory Therapy Facebook groups, this was found in a hospital (The exact same setup seen in the text I was referring to). I have to share this with the group as example of what you see in a text ain't necessarily correct: