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Resuscitator

The resuscitator is engaged in the fact that he gives acute management in situations, life-threatening the person – he recovers and supports his vital functions.

Реаниматолог - врач, оказывающий неотложную помощь в ситуациях, угрожающих жизни человека

The profession the resuscitator means knowledge of fundamentals of resuscitation, anesthesiology. Anesthesiologists and resuscitators are specialists who can be interchanged.

At adult and children's resuscitators specialization one, both of these doctors can work with patients of different age. But children's resuscitators own special skills of work with small children which they acquire with practice.

In what cases address the resuscitator

The main reason for which patients get to the resuscitator is the state of shock which caused disturbance of breath, cordial activity, a metabolism, work of nervous and endocrine systems.

Shock can be traumatic, emotional, painful, toxic, bacterial. The person in state of shock can be strongly excited or suppressed, at it turns pale and skin becomes covered then, pressure decreases, pulse becomes frequent, breath becomes superficial.

If to generalize, resuscitators work with patients who are in a terminal state, or experience clinical death. The terminal state is a reversible state at which the person speaking in images "neither is live, nor is dead", and the resuscitator's task in the shortest possible time to renew the died-away functionality of the most important internals. Clinical death is a same terminal state, but it is distinguished that at the person the brain is inactive, breath and blood supply stopped, only exchange processes work. Such condition of everything lasts about 5 minutes, and during this time the resuscitator by means of an artificial respiration, a cardiac massage, other actions has to return the patient to life.

Except holding resuscitation actions a profession the resuscitator means possession of knowledge and skills of carrying out an intensive care. It means that resuscitators carry out the artificial ventilation of the lungs, dialysis, intravenous infusions, electrocardiostimulation and other procedures directed to correction of a condition of the patient.

What it is important to understand, resuscitators are not engaged in treatment of any diseases, they only recover viability of a human body.

Diagnostic methods which are used by the resuscitator in the work

For assessment of a condition of the patient the resuscitator carries usually out an electrocardiography. Also he can be interested in the data of such analyses of urine and blood displaying:

Level of nuclear heating plant and ALT;
Level of urea, crude protein, bilirubin;
Amount of glucose, potassium, creatinine, sodium in blood;
Existence of HIV, hepatitis B, C, syphilis.

Also such indicators are important for the resuscitator: blood clotting time, Rhesus factor, blood group.

As become resuscitators

Resuscitators are the specialists with the higher medical education who received the corresponding qualification.

Development of a profession of the resuscitator means studying of features and patterns of fading of the vital functions of a human body and ways of their recovery.

Adult and children's resuscitators have to possess broad knowledge of the field of medicine, it is good to know physiology and anatomy of a human body.

The irreplaceable skills necessary for the resuscitator for successful work is resistance to stress, ability to make the right and bystry decisions in emergency situations, the increased attentiveness. At the same time it is important that the resuscitator was able to sympathize with the patient, was ready to bystry assessment of his state.

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