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✔✔jaw-thrust maneuver - ✔✔Technique to open the airway by placing the fingers
behind the angle of the jaw and bringing the jaw forward; used for patients who may
have a cervical spine injury.
✔✔barrier device - ✔✔A protective item, such as a pocket mask with a valve, that limits
exposure to a patient's body fluids.
✔✔bag-mask device - ✔✔A device with a one-way valve and a face mask attached to a
ventilation bag; when attached to a reservoir and connected to oxygen, it delivers more
than 90% supplemental oxygen.
✔✔High Performance Teams - ✔✔rescuers switch every 5 cyces of CPR (about 2
minutes) or sooner if compressor is fatigued
✔✔When do you clear the patient - ✔✔Before and during ANALYZE and SHOCK
✔✔AED pad placement - ✔✔The upper right (direclty below the clavicle) and lower left
side (to the side of the left nipple with the top edge of the pad a few inches below the
armpit) of the chest.
✔✔Special Considerations for AED placement - ✔✔Hairy Chest, Water, Implanted
defibilators and Pacemakers, Transdermal Medication patches
✔✔Removing Medical transdermal medication patches - ✔✔Use gloves
✔✔Elements of effective team dynamics - ✔✔Clear roles and responsibilities, knowing
your limitations, constructive intervention, knowledge sharing, summerizing and
reevaluating, closed-loop communication, clear message, mutual respect and debriefing
✔✔Where to check for pulse for adult, child and infant - ✔✔--for patients 1 year or older
check the radial pulse
--patients younger than 1 year check the brachial pulse
✔✔signs of poor perfusion - ✔✔Temperature: cool extermities
Altered Mental State: continued decline in consciousness/responsiveness
Pulses: weak
Skin:paleness, mottling, and cyanosis
✔✔Opiods Examples - ✔✔hydrocodone, morphine, and heroin
✔✔Reverasal or Antidote for overdose of opiods - ✔✔Narcan or Naloxone