Airway Management
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Artificial Airway
University of Pennsylvania School of NursingRuma suffered a hemorrhagic stroke twenty-one days ago. She required prolonged mechanical ventilation necessitating a tracheostomy. The patient’s condition has been steadily improving. She has been weaned off of mechanical ventilation and is breathing on her own, receiving oxygen via a humidified trach collar. Ruma is alert and oriented. A...
Ruma suffered a hemorrhagic stroke twenty-one days ago. She required prolonged mechanical ventilation necessitating a tracheostomy. The patient’s condition has been steadily improving. She has...
CBRN Radiation Accident with Burn Management
VALOR ProgramSet in the industrial environment, the learner responds to the scene after an explosion with possible exposure to radioactive material. One patient was in a closed room that caught on fire. He suffered extensive burns to the head, face and chest. This patient will require immediate airway management along with...
CBRN Radiation Accident with Burn Management
Set in the industrial environment, the learner responds to the scene after an explosion with possible exposure to radioactive material. One patient was in a...
EMS Pool Accident
VALOR ProgramLearner will arrive on-scene to find an 18-year-old male unresponsive patient with a bleeding head wound lying next to a pool in the backyard. Learner should perform an initial assessment, identify no pulses, initiate CPR, apply a defibrillator, and identify the patient is in PEA cardiac arrest. A cervical collar...
EMS Pool Accident
Learner will arrive on-scene to find an 18-year-old male unresponsive patient with a bleeding head wound lying next to a pool in the backyard. Learner...
Tracheostomy Complications—Chronic Tracheostomy with Tracheoinnominate Fistula
NYU Grossman School of MedicinePatient is a 65-year-old man with prolonged recovery from ARDS due to pneumonia, requiring continued mechanical ventilatory support, who underwent percutaneous tracheostomy insertion 20 days ago. The learner is called to the bedside by the MICU nurse due to bright red blood oozing from the tracheostomy and from the stoma....
Patient is a 65-year-old man with prolonged recovery from ARDS due to pneumonia, requiring continued mechanical ventilatory support, who underwent percutaneous tracheostomy insertion 20 days...