Emergencies and life support

Recognising deterioration, basic life support from the nursing side, choking and the crash cart.

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Procedure

• Basic life support from the nursing sideIf a patient does not respond and is not breathing normally: call for help and the…
• Choking: foreign-body airway obstructionIf the person is coughing hard, encourage them to cough; if they cannot speak or breathe, act…

Safe practice

• Recognising deterioration and calling the rapid response teamAlmost every in-hospital arrest gives warning signs hours before: measuring them, seeing them…
• The crash cart: checks and organisationA complete crash cart, laid out the same way across the hospital and checked every day, saves…

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