The client is unconscious and has a foreign body airway obstruction. Which does the nurse use to restore the client's airway?
1. Apply a series of three quick chest thrusts.
2. Repeat chest thrusts 10 times without stopping.
3. Ventilate the client after each abdominal thrust.
4. Perform finger sweeps between abdominal thrusts.
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4. The nurse performs finger sweeps of the client's mouth between abdominal thrusts to remove the obstruction and restore the client's airway; however, the nurse should visualize the oral cavity to perform the finger sweep and remove the obstruction only if the nurse can remove it without lodging it farther into the airway.
1 and 2. Chest thrusts mimic chest compressions too closely to use for an airway ob-struction, risking precipitation of a cardiac arrhythmia.
3. Ventilating the client before removing the obstruction can force the obstruction into the airway and make resuscitation efforts more difficult.
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