You have been summoned to a grocery store for a 6-year-old girl who has collapsed. On scene, you find the girl lying unresponsive on the floor. Quickly you open the airway and determine that she is not breathing. When you try to ventilate her with the bag-valve mask, you are unable to do so. Repositioning the head and reattempting ventilation is not successful in passing air into the lungs. Your

next action would be to:

A) perform a blind finger sweep.
B) administer 30 chest compressions.
C) ventilate with greater force.
D) place an oral airway.


B

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