What is the difference between artificial ventilation and rescue breathes?!


Question: Artificial ventillation is when the person has an ET tube and the rescuer is actually ventilating the lungs for the person.
Rescue breathes are when there is not an ET tube present.
Basically rescue breaths keep the person alive until the paramedics or other health professional can get there to provide artifical ventilation.


Answers: Artificial ventillation is when the person has an ET tube and the rescuer is actually ventilating the lungs for the person.
Rescue breathes are when there is not an ET tube present.
Basically rescue breaths keep the person alive until the paramedics or other health professional can get there to provide artifical ventilation.

Artificial ventilation is when a person is on a breathing machine, known as a ventilator. An Endotracheal tube is placed through the mouth into a person's airway, into the main tubes that are responsible for the lungs to obtain air so we can breathe. People on a ventilator cannot breathe on their own or have just had major surgery, for example; open heart surgery. Rescue breathes are performed during CPR ( Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) when a person helps another person uses their own " breathing pattern" to obtain oxygen to ventilate another person lungs. Without oxygen, brain damage can occur and possible death if a person cannot be resuscitated. I hope that this is helpful. CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver is a technique that all people should learn because you never know if you experience a person in this situation ( heart attack or choking). The Heimlich Maneuver can also be performed on you by using the self method, should you experience a choking incident. I hope that this is helpful.





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