As this would account for weeks of hospitalization, we decided together with the parents, following the main principles of Patient-and-Family Centered Care, to treat the child at home with the use of a Heimlich valve. A Heimlich valve may be an old-fashioned, but effective one-way-valve ...
Manage the airway. Performendotracheal intubationor administer high-flow oxygen by bag-valve-mask. 3. Position the victim on the side to allow water to drain from the mouth. Proper positioning must be balanced with consideration given to an obvious or occult cervical or thoracic spine injury. ...
Ruptured aortic valve cusp: A complication of the heimlich maneuver A case of traumatic rupture of the aortic valve as a complication of the Heimlich maneuver is presented. Confirmation was made by comparative echocardiogra... JH Chapman,FJ Menapace,RR Howell - 《Annals of Emergency Medicine》 ...
perhaps only step for opening the airway in all near-drowning victims has been proposed by Henry Heimlich and Edward Patrick, contrary to current resuscitation guidelines for the treatment of near-drowning victims established by the Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC) Committee of the American Heart ...
Use of the Heimlich valve to shorten hospital stay after lung reduction surgery for emphysema. Ann Thorac Surg. 1996;61(4):1115-7.McKenna RJ, Jr., Fischel RJ, Brenner M, Gelb AF. Use of the Heimlich valve to shorten hospital stay after lung reduction surgery for emphysema. Ann Thorac ...
Our findings suggest that the Heimlich valve is an appropriate alternative for the management of SP in a nonteaching community hospital setting, with benefits to the patient and to the health care system.doi:10.1016/S0736-4679(97)86442-6Paolo...
Lochbaum, LindaElsevier Inc.Journal of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing Official Publication of the Wound Ostomy & Continence Nurses SocietyHanlon M. Patient with a chest tube and Heimlich valve. J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs 2001;28:314-316....
Resolved tension pneumothorax in a newborn with an adult Heimlich valve. Resuscitation. 2008; 77 :294–295.Garcia Vicente E, Tena Espeleta F, Lopez Gimeno O, Medina Santaolalla P, Poudereux de Andres A, Gobernado Serrano MM. Resolved tension pneumothorax in a newborn with an adult Heimlich ...