First Aid for Anaphylaxis : Assessing an Anaphylactic Reaction
Posted under: Category | 23 January 2008
Watch a first aid dramatization of how a paramedic assesses an allergic reaction in this free training video.
Expert: Josh Wells
Bio: Josh Wells is a firefighter and paramedic in Sedona, Arizona.
Filmmaker: Chuck Tyler
Duration : 0:2:44
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March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Anaphylaxis sucks!
Anaphylaxis sucks!
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
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March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
@Hurting88 fair …
@Hurting88 fair enoth i know it is no that bad but i dont like it when people say thinks like this guy on the vidio coz mine is much worse i coundent talk let alone sit down so that why coz these vidio are not very relastic thanks for comenting
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
@wm1108 Anaphylaxis …
@wm1108 Anaphylaxis isn’t really a disease, and it’s not the worst thing to have, especially depending on your allergies.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
No explanation, …
No explanation, reasoning,an amateurish video. I’m studying nursing and this is a waste of time as an educational exercise.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
It’s a good …
It’s a good scenario just the only thing I would have done is brought the pt. into the ambulance and started treating him there and en route to the hospital.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
No. i’m not from …
No. i’m not from the US… And i never said it wasnt hard to cope with.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
@Rreynaertt ok …
@Rreynaertt ok then i am sorry thewn i am just sock of people tacking the mic coz it is hard to cope with this ps are u in the usa
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
p.s if this was …
p.s if this was real:P I wouldnt have said that;)
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
okay.. really? It’s …
okay.. really? It’s youtube..
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
@Rreynaertt u …
@Rreynaertt u should be serius i have this disise and it is rely hard to live with
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
there are …
there are somethings I would have done differently:
1.take a look in the person’s mouth wide open – to check for any angioedema.
2. give him an bronchodilator inhalation instead of just oxigen – specialy if the auscultation reveals restricted airway.
3. put some sound on that LP12 man!!! silent monitor – dead patient.
4. get the IV fast and give steroids right away.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
The very second you …
The very second you stop breathing they stop asking questions.
It happened to me in 2002. They were asking questions and my breathing suddenly got radically worse. He stopped asking questions and put the oxygen on me.
But my throat closed completely, and they had to stick a needle in my neck and breathe straight into my lungs.
I have no memory of the needle. The ER doctor told me about it.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
paramedics are hot!
paramedics are hot!
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
I have asthma and …
I have asthma and eczema and im allergic to nuts but i dont have an epipen. Maybe i dont have it severly but i havent eaten nuts since like i was diagnosed when a baby. So i dunno. But i have ventalin will that help if i eva have a problem?
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Nice video to see …
Nice video to see how it’s done in real life. Most people think paramedics just open their box of drugs and inject people like they do on that new show Trauma. They don’t realize that a lot of “assessment” has to happen before drugs can be given. This is a pretty clear cut case of an allergic reaction, but most calls are not so obvious (i.e. new onset food allergies).
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
It’s called ACTING! …
It’s called ACTING!!!
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
by the time they …
by the time they were done asking questions, I would have stopped breathing and DIED! I’ve seen this happen to my daughter when she inhaled chlorine…thankfully, they were asking ME the questions while they hooked her up to o2 immediately
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
if its that hard to …
if its that hard to breath then hows he talking soo easyly.. when i couldnt breath and had to go to hospitall i couldnt hardlyy talk !
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
People can be …
People can be allergic to bees.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
But I’m sorry if it …
But I’m sorry if it came off saying you should always use ventolin or something else insane like that, I didn’t mean that. Just as a last resort.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Well yes I’m not …
Well yes I’m not saying only use ventolin, only that it kept my airways open long enough for the ambos to get there. And seeing as we had no EpiPen, salbutamol was all we had. With St John Ambulance (first aid, not paramedics) we’re taught that if you or the pt has no EpiPen obviously rest and reassure them, but we are taught to use salbutamol. I guess because you can’t OD on an inhaler and salbutamol either will help or it won’t, it won’t make it worse.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Bronchodilators …
Bronchodilators stimulate the sympathetic nervous system by causing the bronchioles in the lungs to dilate, so air can pass through them.
They classify medications by groups: cardiac, respiratory, psychiatric, antibiotc, etc. Each group always has several choices in it.
Since I’m only a paramedic, not a pharmacist, I’m not sure what the detailed differences are. I know that, according to what a doctor told me, medication production is too inexact for one medicine to work on all people.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
lil bitch. jk. jk.
lil bitch. jk. jk.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am
if they have …
if they have ventolin, you can try that as well. it sounds stupid but both ventolin and epinephrine are bronchodilators. Ventolin saved my life when I was about 3.