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
Endotracheal intubation with capnography
Mechanical ventilator settings post-intubation
Needle cricothyrotomy in CICO
Supraglottic airway (i-gel/LMA)
Head-tilt chin-lift or jaw thrust
Oropharyngeal airway insertion
Nasopharyngeal airway in semiconscious patient
Two-person bag-valve-mask ventilation
Basic airway
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Advanced airway
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Ventilation
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