Physiology
The trachea is protected by these?
16 rings of cartilage
An unconscious and/or unresponsive patient that is laying flat (supine) is at higher risk for?
Simple Airway Occlusion
You suspect a traumatic injury to a patient. The patient also has an airway that isn't patent. This maneuver should be used along with spinal immobilization?
Jaw Thrust maneuver
The American Heart Association assigns choking to one of 2 categories?
Non severe and/or severe
The requirement for the amount of suction a portable or mounted device must provide?
30 liters or 300 mm/Hg
The name given to the top ring of cartilage?
Cricoid ring
The sounds of a partially obstructed airway of soft tissue of the upper airway creating impedance to air flow. Many experience while asleep?
Slight elevation and anterior positioning of the head that better aligns airway structures to allow for improved airway patency?
Sniffing position
The maneuver used in a Conscious Adult patient who may be choking?
Abdominal Thrusts
Suction catheters are flexible plastic tubes. They come in various sizes identified by a number ________? The larger the number, the larger the catheter.
French
The term used for where the trachea branches and forms the 2 mainstream Bonchi.
The Carina
The sound of fluid obstructing the airway. As air is forced through the liquid, this sound is made?
Gurgling
Children less than this age often have a proportionately larger head with a larger occiput?
If the patient is unconscious from a airway obstruction, Adult or Child, the appropriate treatment will begin?
CPR
The 2nd rule of suctioning is to try and limit the time of suctioning to this?
10 seconds
The smaller air passages are called Bronchioles. The Bronchioles end here?
A high pitched sound generated from a partially obstructed airflow in the upper airway. Can be inhalation or exhalation and is an ominous sign of poor air movement?
Stridor
The most effective way to Clear is with the wide-bore, rigid tip __________ device?
Yankauer
This helps to maintain a patent airway, measure from the corner of the mouth to the tip of the ear, and is contraindicated if the patient has a gag reflex?
Oropharyngeal Airway
The 1st rule in suctioning, and in All interactions with patients, the Provider should use these?
Appropriate infection control practices
The most common obstruction in a person with decreased mental status?
The tongue
No signs of breathing or air movement
Evidence of foreign body in airway
No air felt or heard
unable to speak or difficulty speaking
Breath sounds diminished or absent
All of these are signs of?
Inadequate Airway
This procedure is when the patient is laying supine, applying gentle pressure to forehead, fingers to lift and support the chin, to provide an adequate opening of the airway?
Head-tilt Chin Lift
This process to open the mouth. Cross the thumb and forefinger of one hand and place them on the upper and lower teeth, spreading your fingers apart as you open the patients jaws?
Cross-finger technique
This type of suctioning would be most appropriate with small children and infants. The device can be used in clearing smaller airways and structures like the nostrils?
Bulb Syringe