Airway and Ventilation Quiz 7

1. Which of the following noninvasive techniques to open the airway should be used in trauma patients with suspected cervical fracture?

2. Which one of the following is a non-invasive maneuver that helps to keep the patient’s airway patent without moving the cervical spine just in case it is fractured?

3. Which one of the following is the effect of overventilation?

4. While providing bag-valve-mask ventilations to a cardiac arrest patient, you do not observe a chest rise. When providing assisted ventilation, what can you assume when a visible chest rise is not achieved?

5. While providing positive pressure ventilation, your team leader asks you to slow down the delivery of ventilations to prevent which of the following iatrogenic effects of ET tube hyperventilation?

6 With a complete inventory for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which of the following is best for providing positive pressure ventilation?

7. You are inserting a nasopharyngeal airway into the patient’s right nostril and feel some resistance to it, even after gently rotating the tube. What should you do?

6. Your EMS companion asks you when is the appropriate time to apply an oropharyngeal airway. You answer, “Oropharyngeal airways are only used…”

9. You are monitoring an adult patient with COPD in the emergency department. One symptom of respiratory distress you are monitoring for is tachypnea. Which respiratory rate is defined as tachypneic?

10. You are suctioning the secretions from an advanced airway of a recently revived patient in the ICU. While suctioning, you note the following vital signs: heart rate decreases from 110 bpm to 58 bpm; oxygen saturation drops to 89%, and the patient is cyanotic around the lips. What is your next course of action?