PALS Primary Assessment – Exposure Transcript:Hi, everyone. We’re still in primary assessment, and we’ve come to our last segment in our primary assessment. So far, we’ve covered airway, breathing, circulation, and disability. Now we get to letter E, which stands for exposure. “And you don’t want us exposing ourselves.” Actually, Dr. Venkman, we do want to expose our patients, because […]
PALS Primary Assessment – Disability Transcript:Hi, everyone. We’re still in primary assessment. Now we’re looking at the letter D, disability. When we’re talking about disability, we’re talking about the child’s level of consciousness—are they in a state of altered mental status? That’s what we’re assessing for. Initially, you’re going to use the AVPU scale to assess their initial level of […]
PALS Primary Assessment – Circulation Hi, everyone. We’re still in primary assessment, and now we’re going to be talking about circulation, assessing this child’s cardiovascular status—how well are they moving oxygenated blood throughout the body? What measurements are we going to be taking? We’re going to be looking at their heart rate, pulses (both peripheral and central pulses), capillary refill […]
PALS Primary Assessment – Breathing Transcript:Still in primary assessment, now we’re talking about breathing, which is paramount on a child, the ability to assess their breathing. If you show up at the scene, it’s best to try to get a respiratory rate or look at their breathing before you start poking at this kid, which means if you show up […]
PALS Primary Assessment – Airway Transcript:Hi, everyone. Welcome to primary assessment, airway. Before we dive into the airway, I want to answer a common question the PALS instructors get, and that is CAB versus ABC. When do we do compressions first versus going to the airway first? Great question. CAB was designed and brought forth by the AHA to […]
PALS Primary Assessment Overview Video Let’s talk about the primary assessment. This is really our first hands-on assessment of the patient. The primary assessment is broken into A, B, C, D, E: airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure. Those are the steps of our assessment in the primary assessment. However, know this: With all these steps, the primary assessment only has […]
BLS Ventilation Support Video Hi, everyone. Welcome back. In today’s video, we’re going to talk about ventilation support and how it pertains to CPR and BLS maneuvers. Let’s start at the beginning, the basics, the head-tilt-chin lift. Remember, when a victim is unconscious, lying on their back, the most common airway obstruction is the tongue. We’re going to perform […]
Introduction to BLS Video Hi, everyone. Welcome to Part 1 Introduction to Basic Life Support. In the upcoming video series, we’re going to be covering all these topics you see here, but today we’re going to focus on the key points of performing basic life support. This is important because the science suggests we do this for our patient, […]
BLS – Choking Video Transcript:Hi, everyone. You guessed it. In today’s video, we’re talking about choking. Back in the day, we used to separate choking between a partial and a complete airway obstruction. Today the focus is more on is this a mild or a severe airway obstruction. With a mild airway obstruction, the patient is still able […]
