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NEW APPROACHES IN HEALTH EDUCATION FOR ALTERNATIVE AIRWAY MANAGEMENT

E. T. Avramescu, A. Say, A. Aydogan, A. Ayar, K. Papp

Abstract

The present paper presents new approaches in paramedics education in the framework of an Erasmus + project entitled “Use of Extraglottic and Glottic Alternative Airways Methods in Alternative Airway Management”. The project is based on collaboration between hospitals and Higher Education Institutes from Turkey, Hungary and Romania and aims to develop, test and adapt a continuous vocational educational medical programme, developed on an exhaustive needs analysis and focusing on a transnational approach for airway management. Airway management is the provision of air to, and oxygenation of the patient (who cannot perform the respiratory function due to obstruction of breathing, respiratory arrest) with equipment placed in the respiratory tract, such as in the mouth, or in the trachea. A transnational research showed that at this moment there are national differences in training of paramedics, the methods and equipment used. In addition, knowledge and skill deficiencies arise in graduates due to the lack of curriculum for the use of alternative airway methods in paramedic and emergency medical technician training. In order to develop knowledge and skills for the use of these methods, and to raise awareness, this subject, which is lacking in paramedic training, is planned to be overcome as a result of collective information sharing with transnational countries. The innovative information that emerges as a result of this sharing will be placed in the paramedic education curriculum to provide graduated students with more effective and quality service. In addition, with the awareness of the new information on airway management from different countries, it will be supported to use these equipments in the ambulances in Turkey and to use them effectively by the health personnel. The awareness created through this quality and effective service will prevent unwanted damage and deaths due to the lack of knowledge, skills and equipment related to the alternative airway method.

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