in a pinch you can use your hand until medical help arrives, wipe blood away and place your hand on the wound. Not sanitary but it'll stop the sucking.
@@williamwilson6499 Not only that, he's not even on his left side. Since "toomuchtruth" wanted someone to comment "how it should be done", I don't mind giving a "fucking Harvard educated" expert opinion lol. Unconscious patients cannot swallow to maintain their own airway and decreased sympathetic tone increases the chance of vomiting. The stomach is in the upper left quadrant of the abdomen and the right lung is not only larger with more alveoli, but the right mainstem bronchus is almost in-line with the trachea, unlike the left which makes a sharp left turn. Placing the casualty on their LEFT side with the head supported on the left arm 1) reduces the chance of vomiting because it places the stomach lower than the esophagus, and 2) allows the right lung to fully expand, allowing more perfusion and ventilation. Also, before someone comments about "wounded side down" that highly depends on if you are dealing with a hemo/pneumothorax and if you have a thoracostomy in place or not, or just a simple open pneumothorax. It is not always "wounded side down" if the chest seal is doing its job, the lung will inflate. So there is how "it should be done".
Actually the recovery position is one of the very few things that has remained exactly the same the last 20+ years, and the patient in the video is completely on the wrong side.
Getting himself stabbed in the chest. That is what real commitment education. If only every teaching assistant put that much of effort...
What if you don't have the expensive chest seal.
Should show alternative methods.
Trash bag or even an m&m wrapper
Any type of occlusive material. Saran Wrap, ziplock bag, etc.
in a pinch you can use your hand until medical help arrives, wipe blood away and place your hand on the wound. Not sanitary but it'll stop the sucking.
yup....even a piece of plastic bag between you and the chest.
Terrible video.. that’s not even the recovery position..
Always a fucking Harvard educated expert on every video. How about you provide some info about how it should be done ?
TooMuchTruth Left arm should be placed over the right to support keeping the airway clear.
Look back over the last twenty years and see how many times they have changed the position and kept the name the same.
@@williamwilson6499 Not only that, he's not even on his left side. Since "toomuchtruth" wanted someone to comment "how it should be done", I don't mind giving a "fucking Harvard educated" expert opinion lol. Unconscious patients cannot swallow to maintain their own airway and decreased sympathetic tone increases the chance of vomiting. The stomach is in the upper left quadrant of the abdomen and the right lung is not only larger with more alveoli, but the right mainstem bronchus is almost in-line with the trachea, unlike the left which makes a sharp left turn. Placing the casualty on their LEFT side with the head supported on the left arm 1) reduces the chance of vomiting because it places the stomach lower than the esophagus, and 2) allows the right lung to fully expand, allowing more perfusion and ventilation. Also, before someone comments about "wounded side down" that highly depends on if you are dealing with a hemo/pneumothorax and if you have a thoracostomy in place or not, or just a simple open pneumothorax. It is not always "wounded side down" if the chest seal is doing its job, the lung will inflate. So there is how "it should be done".
Actually the recovery position is one of the very few things that has remained exactly the same the last 20+ years, and the patient in the video is completely on the wrong side.