EC Airway Obstruction Review

A patient who has a partial airway obstruction would have all the following signs EXCEPT:

• noisy breathing

• stridor

• snoring

• being unable to cough or make a sound

The airway adjunct that is used for an unresponsive patient who HAS a GAG REFLEX is the:

• jaw-thrust maneuver

• rescue mask

• nasopharyngeal airway

• oropharyngeal airway

The most common cause of an airway obstruction is:

• facial trauma

• infections

• tissue damage

• the tongue

The airway adjunct that is used for an unresponsive patient who does NOT have a gag reflex is:

• head-tilt chin lift

• nasopharyngeal airway

• oropharyngeal airway

• jaw-thrust maneuver

How do you open the airway of a person who does NOT have a suspected spinal injury?

• tongue-jaw lift

• head-tilt lift

• jaw-thrust

• head-tilt, chin-lift

As you are checking for breathing on a child, you should do all of the following EXCEPT

• Look for chest rise

• Listen for Air Movement

• Feel for Air Movement

• Re-position the child until you can see the chest rise

The correct way to place an OPA in a child victim would be:

• upside down towards the palate and rotated 180 degrees

• from the right corner of the mouth sideways and rotated 90 degrees

• right side up, with the tongue held down with a tongue depressor until it rests in the correct position

• sideways from the corner of the left side of the mouth and rotated 90 degrees

for patients with a suspected spinal injury, you should use the

• head-tilt only

• chin-lift only

• head-tilt, chin-lift

• jaw-thrust

When providing rescue-breaths for an adult, EMR's should ventilate at a rate of:

• one breath every 7-9 seconds

• one breath every 5-6 seconds

• one breath every 11-13 seconds

• one breath every 13-15 seconds

Your patient is unresponsive, but you find out he has a gag reflex. You should use this airway adjunct:

• nasopharyngeal airway

• oropharyngeal airway

• laryngeal airway

• bag-valve mask