Entonox Administration Self-Test
Entonox Administration protocol Self-Test for Emergency Medical Responders in BC. As an Emergency Medical Responder preparing for BC EMALB Licensing evaluations, one of the more complex skills you must become comfortable with is the process and decision making to safely administer Entonox for patient pain management. When administered appropriately, Entonox can greatly enhance overall patient care by alleviating pain and making other interventions less traumatic. However, if Entonox is not appropriate or contraindicated its administration can create severe and life-threatening complications.
Practicing the administration of Nitrous Oxide (Entonox) in a hands-on scenario is important, but you need to make sure you are repeatedly performing the correct steps in the correct sequence. Practice only makes perfect if practiced perfectly. Completing the Enotonox Administration self-test is a quick and easy way to consistently reinforce all the steps and mnemonics, including the contraindications and cautions.
Having the individual Entonox Administration steps and mnemonics reflexively memorized leaves you with more time to think about how to perform those components during a scenario, evaluation and actual patient care. You can download and fill out the Entonox Administration self-test as many times as you need to feel completely familiar with the steps. The "Answer Key" for this self-test can be found in your Emergency Medical Responder Cheat Sheet.
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