Airway Matters
Oh No, O2!
Primary Problems
Diagnostic Dilemmas
Nooks & Crannies
100

This device is inserted along the anatomical curve in pediatric patients instead of upside down...

Oropharyngeal airway

100

This color is seen on oxygen tanks.

Green

100
The American Heart Association rearranged the letters of the primary assessment when a patient appears lifeless to this order...

C-A-B

100

A patient with miosis and slow, shallow respirations is suspected of having this condition?

Opioid overdose

100

This upper airway sound may be present in anaphylaxis and airway obstruction...

Stridor

200

What do you do when a jaw thrust maneuver isn't working?

Head tilt, chin lift

200

You will see this number of pins on an oxygen regulator?

3

200

When checking the skin, CTC stands for this?

Color

Temperature

Condition

200

JVD and pedal edema point to which sided heart failure?

Right

200

Bruising over the mastoid process is referred to as this sign?

Battle's sign

300

Ventilations in a patient with an advanced airway are performed at this rate and timing?

10/minute asynchronously 

300

A full Oxygen cylinder will show this PSI reading...

2000

300

Absent radial pulses with a carotid pulse indicates this?

Shock 

300

Hypotension and JVD presenting in a trauma patient with clear lung sounds are likely from this cause?

Cardiac tamponade 

300

The point at which the trachea bifurcates into left and main bronchi is called?

The Carina

400

You squeeze the BVM until this happens?

The chest begins to rise.

400

The American Heart Association says that oxygen should be delivered to a target SpO2 of what value?

94-99%

400

Occasional, gasping breaths indicate this type of "breathing"?

Agonal

400

Increased BP, decreased pulse, and irregular respirations form a condition called?

Cushing's Triad

400

Patients with ataxia don't have this..

Coordination

500

How long do you suction a patient with persistent vomiting?

As long as it takes to remove the foreign material.

500

This indicates you need to turn up the oxygen flowing to the non-rebreather mask?

The bag deflates more than 1/3 to 1/2 when the patient breathes.

500

This type of tourniquet is used in areas like the shoulder and groin?

Junctional tourniquet

500

This varying pain occurs in a majority of patients with spontaneous pneumothorax? 

Pleuritic pain

500

The term for not being able to breath while lying down is?

Orthopnea