Check My Abc's (Airway, Breathing (Circulation)

I will check my ABC”s (airway, breathing, circulation). The very first thing that I would do is to check and see if the animal is breathing. I can do this in many different ways I can physical watch them to see if they breath, use my stethoscope or by putting my face up to the animals nose and mouth. While noticing that both back legs are broken I would leave the dog in the position that it is in and make sure that we do not move his hind end around. Then I would check his airway to check and see if anything was obstructing it. Once I knew the animal had nothing obstructing his airway I would tell the receptionist to give the dog compressions. I would then tell the kennel attendant to place the Endotracheal tube into the animals trachea. I would tell him/her to grab three different size endotracheal tubes so they would not have to run back to the crash cart if their first choice does not fit.
I would also tell them to grab the whole roll of gauze that we use to hold the endotracheal tube in place.
Incase he/she cut it too short they would have the gauze right next to them so they can redo it. I would be placing the catheter at the same time the kennel attendant is placing the endotracheal tube. I inserted a catheter to allow me to give drugs intravenously as they are needed. Once they had the endotracheal tube placed I would use my stethoscope to listen for bilateral lung sounds to make sure that both lungs were getting air. Then I would be checking the hind legs and splinting/stabilizing them so we can transport the dog and I would stop any active hemorrhaging by applying pressure to the wound. While I am doing this I would occasionally look up to see that the compressions are being done correctly along with the ambu bag. Compressions should be done using either the two- handed compression method or by wrapping on hand around the sternum and the other hand supporting the back. When doing compressions they must push with
force. If your doing it and your not running out of breath or getting tired your doing it wrong. Compressions must be done a nice steady pace. When using the ambu bag the person must breath along with the ambu bag and also “sighs” with it that way they know if they are causing the animal to breath to fast or to slow.