Prehospital emergency care for children with acute suffocation

Bachelor thesis is prehospital emergency care for children with acute asphyxia. It discusses the treatment of children in prehospital care, whereby it becomes specific because care of children and adults is not always identical. Acute asphyxia is a very unpleasant condition, which requires expert intervention as fast as possible. Without help the patient's life can be threatened by loss of consciousness with shortness of breath. The theoretical section of the thesis deals initially with a concise outline of the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, specifics of treatment of patients between the ages 0 to 18 years, at which the childhood is defined, and the subsequently described principle of correct communication with children and methods in the treatment of a child. The theoretical section of the thesis chiefly delineates the causes of acute asphyxia in children. The individual illnesses and injuries, which can affect children up to the age of 18, are characterized as inhalation breathlessness or expiration breathlessness. Illnesses mentioned in this thesis are acute tracheitis, acute laryngotracheobronchitida, allergic swelling, acute laryngitis, acute epiglottitis, acute bronchitis, acute bronchiolitis and bronchial asthma. Injury is the inhalation of a foreign object. For individual illnesses, the causes, symptoms and prehospital emergency care, often diagnostics and first aid too, are described. The final chapter of the theoretical section concerns itself with emergency resuscitation of children. This bachelor thesis has three aims: to graph the frequency of occurrences of acute asphyxia in children in emergency service responses, to graph the causes of acute asphyxia in children in emergency service responses and to graph the awareness of paramedics of the correct provision of prehospital emergency care for children with acute asphyxia. The practical section of the thesis is divided into two sections. The data obtained in the first and second sections was evaluated and for improved transparency transcribed into tables and graphs, which were verbally described. Their evaluation corresponded to each research question. The frequency of occurrence of acute asphyxia in children in emergency medical service responses of the Southern Bohemian Emergency Services from 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2013 included is 598 responses. It was ascertained that the frequency of occurrences has grown every year. The most common causes of occurrences of acute asphyxia in children in the responses from Emergency Medical Service of South Bohemia are acute inflammation of the larynx (acute laryngitis) and breathlessness (dyspnea). Further causes dealt with by emergency responses were for example foreign objects in a respiratory organ or respiratory failure. The results of the survey by questionnaire were evaluated too. The questionnaire survey method was then graphed so that the paramedics had sufficient knowledge about the provision of prehosptial emergency care of children with acute asphyxia. The data obtained and processed in the research section of the bachelor thesis bears witness to the fact that acute asphyxia in children in the emergency responses of the Emergency Medical Service of South Bohemia occur and the number of these responses is growing. Therefore, it is important to have information on the causes of acute asphyxia in children, to know the nature and symptoms of individual illnesses and injuries and above all to have information on the provision of prehospital emergency care of underage patients with this problem. It is then on the spot that the paramedics from the Southern Bohemian Emergency Services would have the optimal awareness about the provision of prehospital emergency care of children with acute asphyxia