Airway Management
This airway adjunct is used in unconscious patients without a gag reflex.
What is an OPA?
This device delivers nearly 100% oxygen when used correctly with a reservoir attached.
What is a nonrebreather mask?
This is your first priority upon arriving at any scene.
What is scene safety/BSI?
The “A” in ABCs stands for this.
What is airway?
What is SAMPLE history?
What is Signs/Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past history, Last oral intake, Events?
This maneuver is preferred when spinal trauma is suspected.
What is the jaw-thrust maneuver?
This condition occurs when breathing is too slow or too shallow.
What is hypoventilation?
This determines the amount of help and equipment needed.
What is determining MOI/NOI and number of patients?
What is AVPU?
What is lert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsive?
What is OPQRST?
What is onset, provocation, quality, radiation, severity, and time?
This device measures oxygen saturation.
What is a pulse oximeter?
The EMT should provide ventilations at this rate for an adult patient with a pulse.
What is 1 breath every 6 seconds?
You respond to a motor vehicle collision where the windshield is starred, airbags deployed, and the steering wheel is bent. Based on these findings, you should suspect this.
What is a significant mechanism of injury (MOI)?
This type of bleeding must be controlled immediately during the primary assessment.
What is severe/life-threatening bleeding?
This exam is performed rapidly on trauma patients to identify hidden injuries.
What is a rapid trauma assessment?
You should suction an adult patient for no longer than this amount of time.
What is 10 seconds?
This breath sound is typically heard in lower airway constriction like asthma.
What are wheezes?
You should suspect this when multiple patients suddenly become ill in the same environment.
What is a hazardous materials incident?
This skin sign may indicate poor perfusion or shock.
What is pale, cool, clammy skin?
A stable patient complains of abdominal pain for the past two days. Vital signs are normal and there are no life threats found in the primary assessment. During the secondary assessment, your next priority should be this.
What is performing a focused assessment and obtaining a SAMPLE/OPQRST history?
You arrive to find an unconscious overdose patient lying supine on the bathroom floor. Snoring respirations are present, chest rise is minimal, and the patient gags immediately when you attempt to insert an airway adjunct. Your next airway intervention should be this.
What is inserting an NPA?
A COPD patient becomes increasingly lethargic during transport while receiving high-flow oxygen via nonrebreather mask. Respirations are shallow at 6 breaths/min with poor chest rise and cyanosis around the lips. Your immediate next intervention should be this.
What is assisting ventilations with a bag-valve mask and oxygen?
You arrive at a residence where four family members complain of headache, dizziness, and nausea. One patient is unconscious near a running generator inside the garage. Before beginning patient care, your priority action should be this.
What is ensuring scene safety and requesting the fire department/HazMat for possible carbon monoxide exposure?
A trauma patient is found sitting against a tree after an ATV rollover. He is anxious, speaking in one-word sentences, has absent breath sounds on the left side, distended neck veins, and cyanosis. During your primary assessment, your priority should be this.
What is providing high-flow oxygen/assisting ventilations and rapid transport for suspected tension pneumothorax?
A diabetic patient is alert but confused after being found wandering outside. During your assessment, the patient denies pain but becomes increasingly altered. Family states he “took insulin but skipped dinner.” Your focused secondary assessment should prioritize obtaining this information next.
What is a blood glucose level/history related to diabetes and insulin use?