You respond to a private residence where an 8-year-old femal…
You respond to a private residence where an 8-year-old female patient is ventilator dependent. The patient’s aunt was watching her and called because an alarm is going off and the patient is in clear distress. Parents are on the way home, but the aunt is panicking and unable to work the machine. After ensuring the scene is safe and you have PPE, your first assessment on this patient should be their [airw]. The patient has a tracheostomy tube attached to a ventilator. You are unfamiliar with this machine, but there is an alert light blinking. The patient is non-verbal, so one way you could assess respiratory status is [spo2] and a second is to check for [skin]. Since the patient has respiratory distress, you should [disc] and [BVM]. This patient seems to have a clean stoma and equipment, so you can safely rule out [sepsis] as an underlying cause.
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You are dispatched to a 6-month-old unresponsive patient. Upon arriving at a single-family house, you are greeted by a mother essentially throwing her baby at you, yelling, “Save her! She’s not responding!” Your patient is a/n [infant] who is clearly struggling to take a breath. The scene is safe, and you have PPE. Upon assessment, you realize the airway is blocked by something you cannot quite see. You should perform [fivebackblows] and then [5thrusts]. After several cycles, the baby goes unresponsive. You should now [compress] and [checkairway]. After treatment, the child is crying, but still has some cyanosis, for which you should administer [bbox].
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