EMS stands for Emergency Medical System
Holding up the BVM, I launched into my instruction about good BVM technique. “Nobody in medicine should be able to hold a candle to an EMT on proper BVM technique! Since we have fewer tools than anyone else, we should be the masters of these tools.”
And with that I began to demonstrate perfect BVM technique.
After watching my E-C hand technique, a student from the third row raised a confident hand. He was a volunteer for a local fire department and had seen the BVM used in the field a few times. He wanted to set the record straight on my insistence on good head position and a tight mask seal. I could see he was trying to reconcile the difference between the technique I was demonstrating and what he had witnessed in the field......................
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Acronyms :
BVM: Blood Volume Monitor
EMT: Emergency Medical Technician
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