Laryngeal mask airway

The rescuer may also provide rescue breaths by either exhaling into the subject’s mouth or nose or using a device that pushes air into the subject’s lungs. The recommended order of interventions is chest compressions, check airway, rescue breaths but some recommend check airway, breaths, and compressions for children. Use 30 compressions and then 2 rescue breaths for adults. Use 15 compressions and then 2 rescue breaths for children. For infants, use 3 compressions and then 1 rescue breath. …

an inadequate airway. In this induction phase, the risk of aspiration is high. This is due to the fact that the patient was induced with relaxing agents and neuromuscular blocks on their cardioesophageal sphincter, which allows gastric content to pass through the esophagus. To prevent these risks from occurring, management of the patient’s airway is vital to keep them safe. Maintenance of the patient’s airway is facilitated by the use of items such as a facemask, laryngeal mask airway, or an…

Aspiration is inhalation of foreign material below the vocal cords. In anesthesia practice, the inhalation of gastric content is rare 1 per 2000-3000 cases occurrence, however the consequences of the complication can be detrimental (Raghavendran, Nemzek, Napolitano, Knight, 2011). Presentation of the pulmonary aspiration ranges from silent aspiration, where the patient does not experience any symptoms, to the development of acute lung injury (ALI). The mortality rate after development of ALI…

Over the last decade, monumental advances in the medical field have taken place, resulting in prompt recognition and management of many diseases. Despite this, meningococcal disease remains one of the leading causes of death in children and young people worldwide (Dowson, 2014). With its rapid onset and serious nature, meningococcal septicaemia affects up to 0.95% of the western world’s population each year making it essential for health professionals to understand the pathophysiology,…

stream. However, the lung disease called emphysema creates a small hole in the alveoli, which stops transferring enough oxygen in the blood stream and destroys the airways (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 2015). Usually, normal lung tissue looks like new sponge but due to the destruction of the tissue around the airways, the emphysema normal lung tissue looks just opposite as an old sponge with the holes around. Thus, having emphysema, not only destroys the air sacs of…

Anaphylactic Shock during Surgery (Patient Care Study) Fundamentals of Perioperative Nursing Word Count- 1882 By: Flormarie V. Bautista 5/1/2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. PATIENT PROFILE & PRESENTING CONDITION 3 3. CLINICAL EXPERIENCE 5 4. REFLECTION 10 5. FINAL CONCLUSION 15 6. REFERENCES 16 1. INTRODUCTION The main objective of this study is to elaborate and document a patient care in the subject of Anaphylaxis…