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The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

An example would be the recent ACLS graduate who tells the airway manager, who is ventilating the patient well without a leak, that he/she is holding the mask “upside-down”. This deliberate choice is known to the expert, but not well-published in basic literature. —David Dunning ” (as cited in Wikipedia article, below).

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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

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How versatile are your airway skills? Most airway management is done with the patient supine and on a table. Importantly, you should practice airway support and BVM facing the patient "from the south" (facing cephalad). Flexibility of mind and skill bodes well. Wiget, Urs & Torres, Eric.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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Now, we know that airway obstruction is most often palatal, or multilevel, and may include retrolingual, and hypopharyngeal. Buffington] NTI largely supplanted by RSI: Current resuscitation practice focuses on the oral route for airway management and intubation. Lubricate well. Advances in prehospital airway management.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

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It was extremely well-liked by field personnel, but virtually unknown in hospitals. Esophageal Obturator Airways [EOA] and Esophageal Gastric Tube Airways [EGTA] precluded gastric inflation, and oxygen was delivered via periglottal ports; but were awkward to intubate “around.” Noordergraaf, G. Van Dun, P. Kramer, B. Schors, M.