Management Of Airway And Breathing (Powerpoint) - 60 Mins - EMT-b

Place one hand on patient’s forehead

Apply firm, backward pressure with palm causing head to tilt backward

Place fingers of other hand under bony part of patient’s lower jaw near chin

Lift jaw upward to bring chin forward

All the above

Unresponsive patient without history of trauma

Cardiac arrest patients without signs of trauma

Apneic patients without signs of trauma

All the above

True

False

Place one hand on either side of patient’s head, resting elbows on surface on which victim is lying

Grasp angles of patient’s lower jaw, lift with both hands

If patient’s lips close, retract lower lips with thumbs

All the above

None of the above

Unresponsive trauma patient

Unresponsive patient with undetermined mechanism of injury

All the above

None of the above

Remove blood, vomit, other liquids, food particles from airway

May not be adequate for removing large, solid objects (teeth, foreign bodies, food)

Should be performed immediately when gurgling is heard with spontaneous or artificial ventilation

All the above

None of the above

True

False

True

False

True

False

True

False

Unresponsive, apneic patients with or without trauma

Any apneic patient being ventilated with a BVM

A & B

None of the Above

Mouth-to-mask with supplemental oxygen

Two-person bag-valve mask with oxygen reservoir and supplemental oxygen

Flow restricted, oxygen-powered ventilation device (manually-triggered ventilator)

One-person bag-valve mask with oxygen reservoir and supplemental oxygen

All the above

True

False