Pediatric Respiratory Distress (Obstruction or FBO)

P606

Alert and not choking

    • Begin transport with patient as comfortable as possible
    • If wheezing, albuterol nebulized treatment

Alert and choking

  • <1 y.o., give 5 back slaps and 5 chest thrusts; repeat as necessary
  • >1 y.o., give abdominal thrusts (Heimlich maneuver)
  • Unconscious
  • Begin CPR/BVM
  • With laryngoscope, look for foreign body and remove with Magill forceps
  • If no foreign body, intubate
  • If still no chest rise, consider pushing tube in right mainstem or needle cric
  • Contact medical command and transport to the closest appropriate facility
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