Airway

• Chin lift/ jaw thrust may be enough to allow patient to breath on their
own
• Rescue breathing position may allow patient to breath that has
bleeding from the mouth or is not completely awake
• Bag valve mask ventilation with oxygen or just room air may be
adequate to allow the patent to breathe
• Nasal trumpet may assist breathing
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• Breathing cannot occur without an open airway
• If a patient can talk or moan then they have an open airway and can
breath
• Bag Valve mask can assist breathing
• Endotracheal intubation is not always necessary or available
• CPR techniques can include mouth to mouth breathing but the person
doing it wears out within 30 minutes at best
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• Many injured patients die from hemorrhage / bleeding.
• Bleeding can be seen externally from lacerations to the body / its
hard to guess blodd loss from looking at blood on patient on beside
the
• Bleeding may going on the chest , abdomen , pelvis, or in the thigh
and not be seen
• Pallor , rapid pulse, patient complaining of thirst may be clues they
are bleeding internally