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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

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

Basic airway

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Advanced airway

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Ventilation

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