Intubation

Having proper airway management with your patients, may be the deciding factor to if they survive or not. Maintaining a proper airway can be done many different ways; by using proper manual maneuvers, using supraglottic techniques and infraglottic/surgical techniques. Using proper manual maneuvers such as head tilt-chin lift and jaw thrust, yet a simple techniques, can have a large effect on a patient. “Head tilt-chin lift is the primary method used to open an airway, used for unconscious…

Distress in Newborn: It is important to understand that illness in the newborns often manifest as respiratory distress. All infants in respiratory distress should be stabilized as quickly as possible, obtaining radiographic/labs/microbiology tests and results must not delay treatment. Most common newborn diseases that present with respiratory distress are following: Meconium Aspiration Syndrome: MAS consists of delivery through meconium stained amniotic fluid with respiratory distress. Neonates…

pace in which vitals were taken, exam completed, and medications dispensed. I felt part of the team as I gently restrained the patient and manually repeated a blood pressure. I witnessed the use of ultrasound to place an IV, video guidance to help intubation, imaging to aid in diagnosis, and identification of the inpatient team best able to care for this patient. I had seen each of these on other clinical rotations, but watching the combination of the wide variety of skills was rewarding. As an…

intensive care. Monitoring specialized equipment such as incubators or ventilators, and dispensing medications is also an important part of their job. Another duty that must be done is performing diagnostic tests or other procedures which can be intubation or blood draws, and they also need to give the proper feeding and basic care. It is essential that Neonatal nurses are skilled observers of infant behaviors and must know how illnesses affect patients as well as their…

They are beneficial in describing and measuring the effects a disaster has on a population. These measurements can later be used to determine the effect of the relief responses. Epidemiological indicators are categorized as quantitative or qualitative. Quantitative indicators are determined by concrete numeric information such as the number of people affected. Examples of quantitative indicators are prevalence, incidence, morbidity rate and mortality rate. Qualitative indicators are used to…

Year Author Title Journal Purpose Design/Sample Results/Recommendations Limitations Level/ Grade 2015 Sion Jo, Taeoh Jeong, Young Ho Jin, Jae Baek Lee, Jaechol Yoon, & Boyoung Park. Emergency Department (ED) crowding is associated with inpatient mortality among critically ill patients admitted via the ed: Post hoc analysis from a retrospective study. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. “To evaluate the assassination between ED crowding and inpatient mortality among critical ill…

My journey into the healthcare field was unconventional to say the least. I had no parental influence or family members that worked in the field. Instead, it was a specific moment I remembered vividly that would be my introduction to the healthcare field. At the age of 10, I witnessed the homicide of my uncle. He received a gunshot to the posterior portion of his cranium by another family member. That was the first time I saw brain matter, experienced being helpless, and in shock. The trauma…

Class IV is severe weakness of muscles, once again excluding ocular muscles and ocular weakness of any severity. Class IVb can also require feeding tube usage without intubation due to weakness of the oropharyngeal and respiratory muscles. Finally, Class V is the final stage of the disorder, and it is defined by the need for intubation, with or without mechanical…

One of the scariest and yet most thrilling moments in my life was when I got in a holding run with an anesthetized lion to help hold for intubation. It’s moments like these that reaffirm my love for the veterinarian field and keep me coming back to learn more. It was when I was growing up that I started to understand just how crucial veterinarians are in my everyday life. My mom was diagnosed with severe rheumatoid arthritis before I was born. Over the years I have seen her suffer through this…

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