Asthma in children follows the same basic biology as in adults, narrowed and inflamed airways with excess mucus, but it shows up differently and needs to be tracked differently over time, since children often cannot […]
An asthma attack can go from mild to life threatening faster than people expect, and knowing the right sequence of steps, rather than guessing under pressure, genuinely changes outcomes. The underlying problem is straightforward even […]
Drowning kills through a single mechanism above everything else, the interruption of oxygen to the brain, and the speed of rescue and resuscitation is what decides whether someone survives it with no lasting harm. Understanding […]
Vital signs observations give you a snapshot of how a patient’s body is coping, and more importantly, a way to track whether they are improving or deteriorating over time. A single reading tells you relatively […]
The secondary survey is the systematic head to toe check you carry out once the immediate life threats have been managed. Where the primary survey asks whether this person is about to die right now, […]
Vomiting during resuscitation is more common than most people expect, and how you handle it in the moment can be the difference between a clear airway and a fatal aspiration. It happens often enough that […]
Pregnancy changes how the body responds to collapse and to CPR itself, mainly because a woman’s own anatomy starts working against her once she is lying flat in the later stages of pregnancy. Knowing this […]
Checking a pulse tells you whether a person’s heart is still pumping blood around their body. It sounds simple, but under stress it is one of the skills people fumble most, which is part of […]
CPR is exhausting. Good quality chest two person cpr changeover compressions performed correctly will tire even a fit rescuer within about two minutes, and tired compressions become shallow compressions, which means less blood reaching the […]
Rescue breathing puts oxygen into a person’s lungs when they have stopped breathing on their own but still have a heartbeat, or as part of full CPR when both breathing and circulation have stopped. It […]
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