Airway (Exam II) Flashcards
How many turbinates are there?
What are their names?
Three
- Inferior
- Middle
- Superior
Which turbinate does the endotracheal tube pass through during a nasal intubation?
- Inferior turbinate
What is necessary for bleeding reduction during nasal intubation?
- Vasoconstrictors (ex. oxymetazoline)
What area is considered the pharynx?
- Base of skull to lower border of cricoid cartilage.
What area is indicated by 1 on the figure below?
Nasopharynx
What area is indicated by 2 on the figure below?
Oropharynx
What area is indicated by 3 on the figure below?
Hypopharynx
What structure divides the oropharynx and the hypopharynx?
- Epiglottis
Loss of pharyngeal muscle tone results in _________ _________.
Airway obstruction
Fill in the structures that compose the picture of the larynx below.
What structure is indicated by 1 on the figure below?
- Median glossoepiglottic fold
What structure is indicated by 2 on the figure below?
- Lateral glossoepiglottic fold
What structure is indicated by 3 on the figure below?
- Aryepiglottic fold
What structure is indicated by 4 on the figure below?
- Ventricular fold
What structure is indicated by 5 on the figure below?
- Vocal fold
What structure is indicated by 6 on the figure below?
- Trachea
What structure is indicated by 7 on the figure below?
- Corniculate Cartilage
What structure is indicated by 8 on the figure below?
- Cuneiform Cartilage
What structure is indicated by 9 on the figure below?
- Piriform Recess
What structure is indicated by 10 on the figure below?
- Tubercle of Epiglottis
What structure is indicated by 11 on the figure below?
- Epiglottis
What structure is indicated by 12 on the figure below?
- Vallecula
What is the purpose of the larynx?
- Inlet to trachea
- Phonation
- Airway protection
Which laryngeal cartilages are unpaired?
- Thyroid cartilage (largest, supports soft tissue)
- Cricoid cartilage
- Epiglottis cartilage
Which laryngeal cartilages are paired?
- Arytenoid cartilage
- Corniculate cartilage
- Cuneiform cartilage
What do the vocal cords attach to?
- Arytenoid muscles & cartilage
- Thyroid at thyroid notch
How far does the trachea span?
What supports it anteriorly and posteriorly?
- From the inferior cricoid membrane to the carina (10 - 15 cm).
- Posterior: longitudinal trachealis muscle
- Anterior: Tracheal rings
Is airway history or assessment more valuable?
- Airway history
What portions of patient history can be a cause for airway concern? Which is most important?
- Past difficult airway
- Report of sore throat
- Report of cut lip or broken tooth
- Recent hoarseness
- Hx of OSA