Chapter 10 Airway Management

What is the preferred way to ventilate a patient?

A mouth-to-mask with one-way valve is the preferred method of ventilation.

What is the main problem with positive-pressure ventilation?

Cardiac output drops and it is imperative that you regulate the rate and volume of artificial ventilations to help prevent this drop.

You answer a call to a restaurant where you find an unresponsive 50-year-old woman laying on the floor. She appears cyanotic and you do not detect chest rise and fall. There are no signs of traumatic injury. What should you do first?

Insert an oral airway and begin ventilations with a BVM.

Which of the following is contraindicated in a patient who has sustained a head injury?

Insertion of a nasal airway

You are assisting ventilations with a BVM and notice the patients chest does not rise and fall with each ventilation, what should you do?

Reposition the airway by bringing the head back to a neutral position, then reopen the airway and attempt to ventilate.

What is respiration?

Respiration is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the alveoli and tissues.

How can gastric distention be prevented when performing artificial ventilations?

You should provide slow, gentle breaths during artificial ventilation over 1 second.

While you are performing artificial ventilations on a patient, he vomits. What should you do?

You should roll the patient onto his side to allow for drainage of emesis.

Excellent indicators of respiration include level of consciousness and what else?

skin color