How this exercise works
Sort airway tools and ventilation strategies into the correct management categories, basic adjuncts, advanced airways, BVM, CPAP, and rescue techniques.
Fundamental concept
Categorizing basic adjuncts, supraglottic devices, intubation, BVM, CPAP, and rescue techniques for failing ventilation.
Read: Advanced Airway & Respiratory Management →Scenario
Unresponsive trauma patient. Two-person BVM inadequate: SpO₂ 82%, EtCO₂ 55, gurgling upper airway. Gag reflex absent.
Sort each intervention into the correct category.
Items
Needle cricothyrotomy in CICO
Supraglottic airway (i-gel/LMA)
Two-person bag-valve-mask ventilation
Mechanical ventilator settings post-intubation
Head-tilt chin-lift or jaw thrust
Nasopharyngeal airway in semiconscious patient
Endotracheal intubation with capnography
Oropharyngeal airway insertion
Basic airway
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Advanced airway
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Ventilation
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