Tips for Skill 19

PENN FOSTER VET TECH EXTERNSHIP TIPS - Tips for Skill 19

This skill will require you to apply emergency protocol and first-aid procedures, maintain a crash cart, and apply emergency splints, bandages, and tourniquets. Upon completion of this skill, you will be able to follow established emergency protocols, assist in emergency situations, maintain and know how to use crash cart contents, apply emergency splints, bandages, and tourniquets. You will also be able to demonstrate your knowledge of CPR procedures including the use of an ambu bag.

Tips for materials that need to be submitted:

• Log book with a minimum of two emergency procedures you assisted with

  • Your cases should include the following:

    • Wound management

    • Patient assessment

    • First Aid

    • Supportive care performed by you

  • They should be emergency cases. The situation should be somewhat life threatening. Not an emergency broken toe nail or limping for a month. Some good examples are allergic reactions, a trauma, respiratory distress, toxicity.

  • Give a brief explanation of the case and explain how you assisted with it. (You need to have assisted in supportive care and/or first-aid)

• List of medical supplies contained in the emergency crash cart in the practice

  • The specific contents of the cart

  • If it contains a dosage chart, discuss it

  • List all medical supplies that are contained in it

• Description of CPR procedures in canine and feline patients

  • You need to include the use of an ambu bag in the description

  • You need to discuss the CPR procedure in a clinical setting, mouth to snout would not be performed

  • Do not forget to discuss the use of a defibrillator and emergency drugs

• Video of student performing the CPR procedure

  • You can use a model (like a stuffed animal dog or cat)

  • Do not do mouth to snout, you need to demonstrate giving breaths using an ambu bag and an anesthesia machine

  • Show each step, we know the patient may not be real but you need to walk through each step as if it was. Start with assessing it for breathing and a pulse and go from there

  • You need to demonstrate giving breaths and compressions. You can have a helper with you delivering whichever you are not, then you need to switch.

  • Make sure you have correct hand placement and arm positioning while giving compressions

• Helpful resources in addition to your textbooks and study materials:

  • http://www.vettimes.co.uk/article/preparation-and-techniques-for-cardiopulmonary-resuscitation/