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Review online link:
http://vortexapproach.org/lifelines/#fmv

Very brief intro 2-3 minutes
(they've heard this before, just for reenforcement of the concept)
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Mastering Your Upper Airway Lifelines - BVM Edition

Published on Apr 16, 2017

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

BVM Edition

Mastering Your Upper Airway Lifelines
Review online link:
http://vortexapproach.org/lifelines/#fmv

Very brief intro 2-3 minutes
(they've heard this before, just for reenforcement of the concept)

Upper Airway Lifelines

The BVM is one of your three
While only one of these lifelines is considered a definitive airway it is important to remember that in an emergency airway setting a definitive airway does not supersede the need to prioritize oxygenation and that any of these lifelines can successfully achieve that goal.

It is part of the Vortex Cognitive Tool

Emergency

To remind you that during an airway
Photo by Piotr Chrobot

Oxygenation

Is the primary goal
In the emergency airway setting it is important to remember that the goal is not intubation but oxygenation.

BVM in an EMERGENCY

  • Rescue Device
  • Preoxygenation
  • Reoxygenation

Bag Valve Mask

Introduction to the
Introduction to the SGA
(show and tell) 5-7 minutes.

Hands On!

Time for Some
15 minutes of time

Problem Solving the BVM

You're lifeline hasn't "failed" until you've made your best effort!

Hands On!

Time for Some More
10 minutes of time

You May Now Safely Enter the Vortex

Good job!
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