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O*NET detailed work activityImplement advanced life support techniques
Stays humanHands-on care
8 jobs12 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Administer emergency medical treatment, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 12 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Provide airway management interventions including tracheal intubation, fiber optics, or ventilary support.
- Manage patients' airway or pulmonary status, using techniques such as endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, pharmacological support, respiratory therapy, and extubation.
- Operate equipment, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators, or bag valve mask resuscitators, in advanced life support environments.
- Provide and maintain life support and airway management and help prepare patients for emergency surgery.
- Respond to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
- Assist in the provision of advanced life support techniques including those procedures using high frequency ventilation or intra-arterial cardiovascular assistance devices.
- Perform endotracheal intubation to maintain open airways for patients who are unable to breathe on their own.
- Assist with patient resuscitation during cardiac arrest or other life-threatening events.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Perform emergency cardiac care, such as cardioversion and manual defibrillation.
- Administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation to injured persons or provide emergency medical care such as basic or advanced life support.
- Perform medical procedures, such as administering oxygen, inserting and removing airways, taking vital signs, or giving emergency treatment, such as first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).