Outdoor Emergency Care Chapter 9

Front

Which of the following patients has an actual or potential critical occlusion of the upper airway? Options: 3-year-old with a fever and swelling of the larynx, 45-year-old with spasm of the bronchioles, 61-year-old with a severe cough, 78-year-old with a mucus plug in a right bronchioles

Back

3-year-old with a fever and swelling of the larynx

Front

Your patient has just had a seizure and is presenting with snoring respirations. You will open her airway with the head tilt – chin lift method. Which option correctly describes this method?

Back

Place one hand on the forehead and one hand on the boney part of the lower jaw

Front

You want to open your patient’s mouth to check for obstruction with the cross-finger technique. Which of the following describes the best way to accomplish the cross-finger technique? Options: Place your index finger and thumb between the patient’s teeth and into the oropharynx. Then push the teeth apart, Place your fingers on the lower teeth and pull downwards to open the mouth, Cross your index finger and thumb on the boney part of the lower jaw. Then push up on the jaw to open the mouth, Place your index finger on the upper teeth and thumb on the lower teeth. Then spread your finger and thumb apart opening the mouth.

Back

Place your index finger on the upper teeth and thumb on the lower teeth. Then spread your finger and thumb apart opening the mouth.

Front

You are correctly performing the jaw-thrust maneuver when you:

Back

Use the thumbs or fingers as a lever to lift the patient’s mandible forward.

Front

You are caring for an unconscious patient who has vomited and appears to have a blocked airway. Using the crossed finger technique you open the patient’s mouth and can see a large piece of undigested food near the back of the throat. You would:

Back

Perform a finger sweep

Front

Which of the following statements describes the correct positioning of a BVM on an adult patient’s face? The narrow part of the mask is over the bridge of the nose, and the bottom part is in the groove between the lower lip and chin. If two rescuers are using the BVM, the mask need only be placed over the mouth while the nose is pinched closed. The wide portion of the mask is at the top of the nose, and the narrow part is below the lower lip. The mask is properly positioned when the top portion lies over the bridge of the nose, and the lower portion is below the chin.

Back

The narrow part of the mask is over the bridge of the nose, and the bottom part is in the groove between the lower lip and chin.

Front

By placing an oropharyngeal airway in a patient, you have:

Back

Kept the tongue from occluding the airway.

Front

Which of the following statements indicates that the speaker understands how and when to use an oropharyngeal airway? Options: “It can be used for patients who respond to painful stimuli”, ”It should be sized from the tip of the nose to the angle of the jaw”, “It protects the patient from aspirating vomit or other secretions.”, “I must watch the patient for vomiting or gagging even with the proper insertion.”

Back

“I must watch the patient for vomiting or gagging even with the proper insertion.”

Front

For which of the following patients is placement of an oropharyngeal airway indicated? A responsive but confused patient with stridor us respirations, A patient who has vomited and responds to painful stimuli by moaning, An unresponsive patient who has neither a gag reflex nor a cough reflex, A patient with snoring respirations who coughs as the oral airway is placed into his mouth

Back

An unresponsive patient who has neither a gag reflex nor a cough reflex

Front

You are observing a rescuer insert an oropharyngeal airway into the airway of a 36-year-old male who has overdosed. Which one of the following observations indicates correct technique? Options: The rescuer inserts the airway into the patient’s mouth with the tip pointed towards the roof of the mouth and then turns it 180 degrees once it is halfway in the mouth., The rescuer inserts the airway into the patient’s mouth with the tip pointed towards the roof of the mouth and then turns it 90 degrees., The rescuer inserts the airway with the tip pointed towards the tongue until the flange of the airway is 1 cm above the patient’s lips., The rescuer inserts the airway sideways into the mouth and then rotates it 180 degrees once it has reached the base of the tongue.

Back

The rescuer inserts the airway into the patient’s mouth with the tip pointed towards the roof of the mouth and then turns it 180 degrees once it is halfway in the mouth.