Talk:ABC (medicine)/GA1

GA Review
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A number of issues -- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:12, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Cardiac arrest is the ultimate cause of death for all animals is not true. You can stop peoples hearts put them on the heart lung machine and restarted it a few hours latter once we have done the surgery.  Were they dead?
 * WP:LEAD is lacking
 * 1) History section does not discuss the rest of the history and belongs at the end
 * 2) What about C spine "In this simple usage, the rescuer is required to open the airway (using a technique such as "head tilt - chin lift")"
 * 3) "In the event that the patient is not breathing normally, the current international guidelines (set by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation or ILCOR) indicate that chest compressions should be started." Would need the ref were this is from?
 * 4) Do not like the use of all the lists
 * 5) What about ATLS, PALS, NRP? The ABCs have a lot greater usage than just ACLS, BLS.
 * 6) What about globally? Are they called the ABCs in french, german, japanese?
 * 7) This is written from the POV of a prehospital rescuer. Needs to be written from a NPOV.  We use ABCs prehospital and in hospital.  It is part of the initial assement of every patient even though we usually do it automatically without thinking.  ie.  One says hello how are you if the response is normal one has varified their airway breathing and circulation ( poor circulation poor brain function ) therefore confused speech.