Airway and Adjunct Equipment for Mr Chan

Nursing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Outline what airway and adjunct equipment and anaesthetic technique would be most
appropriate for Mr Chan and provide a rationale for your choices........................................1
Explain the first three stages of anaesthesia and demonstrate how this would manifests in Mr
Chans’ clinical status taking into consideration his comorbidities. Identify specific
interventions that can mitigate any complications during these three stages.........................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Books and journals...........................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Nursing refers to a professionals having degree of nursing diploma and licence to perform
nursing practices for providing care to sick people for their welfare. It includes a person having a
position of registered nurse with sufficient knowledge and training to carry out clinical
procedures for delivering appropriate care facilities to making patient healthy. However, it
includes various roles and responsibilities of nurses to provide more effective as well as efficient
treatment to an individual for solving their particular health problem (Potter and et. al., 2016). It
is necessary for them to maintain dignity and respect of patients while providing care and
support to them. It is required for nursing staff to follow codes of practices and ethical principles
while dealing with sick individuals and provide appropriate treatment. Moreover, the nurses are
required to make accurate attempt of medication administration and provide correct dosage of
correct medicine at correct time to correct person for their wellness. In context of this project, it
is based on case study of David Chan who is suffered from right fractured neck of femur and
patient get admitted to emergency unit for immediate right hip hemiarthroplasty. This
assignment will focus on airway & adjunct equipment and anaesthetic technique that is
appropriate for selected individual. It will also include stages of anaesthetics and clinical
considerations for patient.
MAIN BODY
Outline what airway and adjunct equipment and anaesthetic technique would be most appropriate
for Mr Chan and provide a rationale for your choices.
Airway and adjunct equipment refers to a pathway to provide sufficient amount of oxygen fir
patient to maintain oxygen level in their body during the surgical process to maintain stable
condition. It includes different types of airways such as oropathryngeal airway, nasopharyngeal
airway, laryngeal mask airway, endotracheal intubation and cricothyroidotomy tracheostomy
(Holloway and Galvin, 2016). Meanwhile, it has been analysed that surgical cricothyroidotomy
can be defined as an open process of securing the airway through an incision on the cricothyroid
membrane which is considered as an emergency surgical airway (ESA). It includes the procedure
including distinct from needle cricothyroidotomy which is known to be an alternative method to
front of neck access (FONA). According to the case scenario of David Chan, it is observed that
cricothyroidotomy is suitable airway approach because they get admitted to emergency situation.
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