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Airway & Respiratory Management

Asthma: Impending Respiratory Failure · L1

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.

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Scenario

Silent chest, exhaustion, RR 40, SpO₂ 90%, unable to speak, weak tidal volumes.

Sort each intervention into the correct category.

Items

Ventilator with permissive hypercapnia post-intubation
Continuous albuterol/ipratropium nebulization
RSI with ketamine or etomidate per protocol
IM epinephrine if severe bronchospasm per protocol
Mag sulfate IV if protocol allows
High-flow oxygen
BVM preoxygenation before RSI
Capnography after intubation

Basic airway

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Advanced airway

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Ventilation

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