Airway maintenance
Obstructed airway
Breathing is important for any human being to stay alive as the major role of the respiratory system is to transport oxygen inhale from the lungs to all parts of the body.
The airway can be blocked with many methods as well as foreign bodies (food or other items), allergic reactions, asthma, blood, vomit, and infections. Any blockage can cause slight or extensive breathing difficulties and in certain situations, can be fatal.
Someone who is choking will have either moderately or entirely block the airway. The difficulty in breathing will be determined by how bad the blockage is.
Characteristics of people with blockage in the airway.
- Struggling in breathing and speaking
- Struggling in crying or making noise
- Redness of the face
- Eyes enlarge and watering
- Can't stay still
Treatment
- The only individual that has completed formal practical training can do this
- Ask the patient to lean forward and cough
- Conduct 5 sharp blows between the shoulder blades as maximum.
If the obstruction still remains :
- Conduct a maximum of 5 abdominal thrust
- If still not relieved, call for help like ambulance and keep continue alternating back blow with 5 abdominal thrust
- Start CPR if the individual becomes unresponsive
- Support the individual carefully to the ground
- Immediately call the ambulance
- Begin CPR with chest compressions.
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