You have been unsuccessful in your basic airway procedures to remove a foreign body airway obstruction in a 12-month-old child. Which of the following should be the next intervention?
A) Surgical cricothyrotomy
B) Positive pressure ventilation with a manually triggered, flow-restricted, oxygen-powered ventilation device
C) Direct laryngoscopy, removing the object with Magill forceps if it is visualized
D) Needle cricothyrotomy
C
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passenger by which technique? A) Move the patient as quickly as possible so he can get to a hospital before paralysis sets in. B) Take extra care to protect the passenger's neck with a KED board or short spine board because of the injury. C) Carefully move the patient using full c-spine precautions. D) Move the patient out of the car as quickly as possible, in the direction of the long axis of the body.
A patient has had part of his right thumb amputated in an accident. Friends have retrieved the thumb and wrapped it in a towel. When you arrive, you would demonstrate appropriate handling of the amputated part by:
a. placing the thumb in a plastic bag filled with ice. b. keeping the thumb in the towel. c. placing the thumb in a container of sterile saline or sterile water. d. wrapping the thumb in a moist sterile dressing, placing it in a sterile bag, and keeping it cool.
According to Hess and associates, how should the practice of allowing resuscitation victims to breathe spontaneously through the NRV of resuscitators be viewed?
A. acceptable because it gives the person performing ventilation periodic rest B. acceptable because spontaneous breathing helps load the respiratory muscles C. unacceptable because this practice imposes increased work of breathing D. unacceptable because the victim cannot sustain a fixed Fio2
The tooth that the dental dam clamp is placed on is called the anchor tooth
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false