Upper Airway
Largest and most obtrusive muscle in the upper airway.
What is the tongue?
The terminal end of the respiratory tree.
What are the alveoli?
This process of moving air in and out of lungs is also what the fire department's truck company does on a fire ground.
What is ventilation?
Slang term for this technique is also a bar game involving sharp objects being aimed at a bullseye.
Physically displacing the mandible forward.
This anatomical feature- different for men and women- is the border between the upper and lower airway.
What is the larynx or vocal cords?
This is the area between the chest wall and the lungs.
What is the plural space?
The other major body system which works closely with the respiratory system.
Big plastic face covering which continually forces oxygen into the airway.
What is CPAP?
The movement created when leaning forward to smell a flower.
What is the sniffing position?
Most superior entrance to the airway.
Spot where the trachea divides into the right and left.
What is the carina?
The process of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide.
God save the Queen....'s husband.
What is a king tube?
This adjunct is measured from the anterior portion of the mouth to the mandibular angle.
A natural reaction which prevents foreign material from entering the lower airway.
What is a gag reflex?
A ligament which is punctured through as part of a cricothyrotomy.
What is the cricothyroid membrane?
Study of exhaled gas from the body's lungs.
What is capnography, or EtCo2?
Your two options for this skill are named after the owner of the Jazz and after a computer.
What is endotracheal intubation?
Rubber tube whose nickname is that of a flared brass musical instrument.
The spot where a Macintosh blade goes.
The adrenergic receptor which encircles the bronchioles.
What is beta 2?
This part of the body's computer is the primary involuntary respiratory center.
What is the medulla?
Hollywood likes to make it seem this technique can be accomplished using a pocket knife and a straw.
What is cricothyrotomy?
Vacuum powered device.
What is a sunctioning unit?