BLS Results and the Laryngoscope October 29, 2006
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Well the BLS assessment went well, was all over in a couple of minutes, might have been an advantage that we got a sneeky peak at the marking sheet, all you could hear was ’Help’ being shouted down the corridors! The other fun things that we got to do were use different airway adjuncts (posh word for holding the airway open), such as the laryngoscope. This is just a glorified tong presser, such as those you have as a kid when you go to the doctors, im sure we can all remember ”open wide and say arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”, but this thing has a light on so you can see down the throat.
As we were practicing however, the dummy kept making a clicking sound, we were reliably informed that this would have been a persons teeth breaking had we been doing it for real. Thank fully it wasnt, and it was only our first time. Practice makes perfect as they say.
[...] the first skill station, we had another go at using the laryngoscope (see previous post). This time was a little more successful than the last, no teeth clicking this time, although I [...]
Is this like the DRsABC?
Danger, response, shout, airways, breathing and circulation?
Not long came off a first aid course myself and I actually love first aid and want to become a paramedic
Scrap that I just noticed your primary and secondary survey bits. My bad