Complications from needle-jet ventilation include:

a. hyperventilation. c. subcutaneous em-physema.
b. subglottic stenosis. d. right bronchus in-tubation.


ANS: C
Complications of needle-jet ventilation include formation of a false passage into subcutaneous tissue, development of subcutaneous emphysema, creation of a pneumothorax, bleeding, failure to ventilate, and damage to neck structures.

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