Name the Difference
Nose, up to 6 months
What are preferential nose breathers up to 6 months of age?
Cause of Altered Mental Status and Cardiac Arrest
What is hypoxia?
Narrowest Part of Pediatric Airway
What is the cricoid cartilage and trachea?
Increased Respiratory Efforts
What are retractions?
Short and Weak
What are the short weak neck and trachea?
Positioning is Vital
What is a flexed head that can occlude airway?
Funnel for Secretions
What is the cricoid cartilage and trachea?
Grunting, Stridor
Ribs Make it Harder
What is difficult to increase tidal volume?
Occluding the Airway
What is a large tongue and narrow oropharynx?
Shorter and causes displacement of ET tubes
What is the trachea?
The reason grunting is heard
What is to generate positive end expiratory pressure?