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    Airway management includes a set of maneuvers and medical procedures performed to prevent and relieve an airway obstruction. This ensures an open pathway...
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    Advanced airway management is the subset of airway management that involves advanced training, skill, and invasiveness. It encompasses various techniques...
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    oropharyngeal airway (also known as an oral airway, OPA or Guedel pattern airway) is a medical device called an airway adjunct used in airway management to maintain...
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    Surgical airway management (bronchotomy or laryngotomy) is the medical procedure ensuring an open airway between a patient’s lungs and the outside world...
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    A laryngeal mask airway (LMA), also known as laryngeal mask, is a medical device that keeps a patient's airway open during anaesthesia or while they are...
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    Basic airway management is a concept and set of medical procedures performed to prevent and treat airway obstruction and allow for adequate ventilation...
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    efficacy improved with routine tracheal intubation and other advanced airway management techniques. Advances in monitoring and new anaesthetic agents with...
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    angina: sufficient airway management, early and aggressive antibiotic therapy, incision and drainage for any who fail medical management or form localized...
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    injury and preserve neurological function. Some methods may include airway management and mechanical ventilation, maintenance of blood pressure and end-organ...
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    and can allow the tongue to slide back and obstruct the airway. This makes airway management necessary, and an NPA is one of the available tools. The...
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    unconscious patient, the priority is airway management, to avoid a preventable cause of hypoxia. Common problems with the airway of patient with a seriously reduced...
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    Airway obstruction is a blockage of respiration in the airway that hinders the free flow of air. Airway obstructions can occur either in the upper airway...
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    airway management techniques, such as tracheal intubation. The recovery position is designed to prevent suffocation through obstruction of the airway...
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    persistent rhinorrhea, and with bilateral choanal atresia, an obstructed airway that can cause cyanosis and hypoxia. Choanal atresia is diagnosed based...
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    cricothyroid membrane to establish a patient airway during certain life-threatening situations, such as airway obstruction by a foreign body, angioedema...
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    should be placed in the recovery position or advanced airway management should be used. Airway management Cardiopulmonary resuscitation First aid "קורס עזרה...
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    substantially from region to region. ACPs perform advanced airway management including intubation, surgical airways, intravenous therapy, place external jugular IV...
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    and treatment. Airway obstruction: Obstruction may occur in the upper and lower airway. Upper airway: Obstruction of the upper airway is common in infants...
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    Choking, also known as foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO), is a phenomenon that occurs when breathing is impeded by a blockage inside of the respiratory...
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    US Airways was a major airline in the United States. It was originally founded in Pittsburgh as a mail delivery airline called All American Aviation,...
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    Sarah W.; Olson, David W.; Hargarten, Stephen W. (1994). "Emergency airway management in hanging victims". Annals of Emergency Medicine. 24 (5): 879–84...
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    Tracheal intubation (category Airway management)
    a flexible plastic tube into the trachea (windpipe) to maintain an open airway or to serve as a conduit through which to administer certain drugs. It is...
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    Pulmonary aspiration (category Airway management)
    of certain factors such as depressed level of consciousness and impaired airway defenses (gag reflex and respiratory tract antimicrobial defense system)...
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    address at least five different aspects of peri-cardiac arrest care: Airway management, ventilation, CPR compressions (continued from BLS), defibrillation...
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    Laryngoscopy (category Airway management)
    successful in many airway syndromes as well. The GlideScope Ranger is a variant designed for use in pre-hospital airway management including air, land...
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    Tracheotomy (category Airway management)
    tracheostomy, is a surgical airway management procedure which consists of making an incision on the front of the neck to open a direct airway to the trachea. The...
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    A blind insertion airway device (BIAD or blind insertion device) is a medical device used for airway management that ensures an open pathway between a...
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    Provides expertise in airway management, sedation, and perioperative care. Pulmonology: Offers specialized knowledge in respiratory management and ventilatory...
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    cartilage pad. Applications for medical gags include oral surgery and airway management. Gag designs, like other medical instrument designs, are often named...
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  • In anaesthesia and advanced airway management, rapid sequence induction (RSI) – also referred to as rapid sequence intubation or as rapid sequence induction...
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