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Do any of you ever feel like ACLS Certification is just a title and doesn't mean you actually know what you're doing. I have some co-workers that honestly I don't know how they passed the course. I'll give them a scenario and they seem clueless. Any of you feel the same way?

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All it means is that a surgical wound that was held together by stiches or staples came apart. It doesn't necessarily mean anything major is going to happen like guts hanging out (though that could happen), it just refers to the actual sugcal incision not being together to heal and close up,

If you aren't able to get any O2 into the lungs at any point, then doing everything you can for the heart would have ended up being pointless, but if the ER doc was able to get an airway, then the patient may have had a chance if you kept the circulation going (but not a good chance). If you...

So back to the origional question.............Do you guys continuously bag someone when intubated, or keep a 30:2 ratio?

I've taken many ACLS classes and half the time it is taught that compressions and bagging should remain separate. You know 30:2, but once a patient is intubated then bagging can remain at a slow constant pace. The other half of the time it is taught that it should still remain separate at 30:2...