Respiratory Emergencies
Information Covered:
- Airway Assessment
- Purpose
- Procedure
- Anticipating the Difficult Airway
- Techniques of assuring a patent airway
- Manual airway maneuvers
- Mechanical airway devices
- Relief of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction
- Airway suctioning
- Blind insertion airway devices
- Endotracheal intubation
- Direct laryngoscopy (visualized)
- Non-visualized
- Nasal
- Digital
- Lighted stylet
- Fiber optic (Shikaini Seeing Optical Stylet (SOS), Glide scope)
- Percutaneous cricothyrotomy
- Rapid ventilation, exhaustion, dead space air movement
- Mechanical ventilation
- Breathing against an elevated diaphragm
- Decreases in lung compliance such as pneumonia, emphysema, and trauma
- Ventilation-perfusion mismatch
- Perfusion defects
- Anemia
- Blood loss
- Disruptions in effective circulation
- Disruptions at the cellular level
- Management of Adequate and Inadequate Respiration
- Respiratory Compromise
- Supplemental Oxygen Therapy
A. Review the oxygen delivery devices
B. Oxygen administration and the patient with hypercapnia
C. Age-Related Variations in Pediatric and Geriatric Patients
Content Creator: Joyce Lockwood
CAPCE Course Number: 20-EMTP-F3-3203
Total CE Hours: 1
Level: Advanced
EMT-CE uses the NEMSES guidelines as the foundation for every course outline.