Chapter 11 Airway Management Flashcards
The essential component of the airway management skill set is ?
Critical thinking
Early intubation may be extremely beneficial in what type of patients?
Particularly patients with septic or hypovolemic shock.
Who published the emergency airway algorithms that use a clinical critical-thinking approach?
The (National Emergency Airway Management)
What are the algorithms intended as?
Guidelines in the approach to the emergency airway.
What are the 5 airway algorithms?
1- universal emergency airway algorithm 2-Main emergency airway algorithm 3-crash airway algorithm 4-difficult airway algorithm 5-failed airway algorithm
Excessive secretions place the patient at risk for?
Serious aspiration and an edematous epiglottis may obstruct the upper airway.
The understanding now is that hyperventilation reduces??
ICP by causing cerebral vasoconstriction and a subsequent reduction in cerebral blood flow.
Limiting the use of hyperventilation after severe TBI may help improve neurologic recovery after injury’s or at least avoid??
Iatrogenic cerebral ischemia.
What is the two part process of the airway assessment?
The Primary survey is (quick and crude)
The secondary is (slower and refined)
An altered level of consciousness may indicate?
Hypoxia
The transport team asses the patient by??
- looking
- listening
- feeling for spontaneous respiration’s
Tachypnea and tachycardia are caused by stimulation of what nervous system?
Sympathetic also known as fight or flight.
What is an indicator of shock for adult and pediatric?
Pallor
The skin is considered a minor or major organ?
Minor.
What are the major organs?
The heart and brain.
The chest wall should be palpate for what findings?
Tenderness,crepitus,subcutaneous air, and symmetry of movement.
The normal lung sound is?
Resonant.
A hemothorax is?
Dull.
A tension pneumothorax is?
Hyperresonant.
The history of MOI or progression of illness may also provide?
Subjective and objective data.
Which assist the transport team in determination of a course of action.
Recognition that bradypnea and bradycardia are critical signs of?
Impending realities failure in the pediatric patient essential .
Cardiac arrest usually caused by?
Realities failure.
Children’s with respiratory insufficiency may show herbal signs of?
- Fatigue
- restlessness
- irritability
- confusion may cling the child to their parents with anxiety and apprehension.
- A weak cry is also typical.
Cyanosis is a result of ? For peds
Desaturated hemoglobin.