An NBA stands for nasal airway . We
use it commonly to bypass any kind of
upper airway obstruction . So the
second leading cause of death on the
battlefield of United States soldiers
tends to be airway obstructions . And
one of the benefits that we can use for
the nasal airway is it can be used on a
conscious patient or an unconscious
patient to bypass whatever the
obstruction may be . The majority of
our training , asthmatics is on
mannequins . And any time we get to do
live tissue training , whether it be
one of our battle buddies or another
soldier , we can go ahead and take
advantage of that . Whereas the medic
administering the MPA can get used to
meeting that resistance that you feel
and what it's going to be like on an
actual person . We like to do practice
on the live tissue because we don't
want the first time they do an NP on a
real person to be in a critical
situation where their nerves are shot .