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.
A thorough examination consist of?
- Palpation
- percussion
- high index of suspicion
The chest wall and mediastinal structures are more mobile in adults?
True or false.
False.
-they are more common in children.
Can children withstand severe blunt chest trauma without sustaining rib fractures?
True or False
True.
-but the heart and lungs may be severe contused.
A child with a tension pneumothorax may experience?
A shift of the mediastinal structures much faster than adults.
If the patients mandible is not intact, the tongue can protracted directly with?
- Traction with a towel clip
- Suture
- Clamp
When the tongue is properly positioned an opa rest in??
The lower posterior pharynx.
NPA may be used in patients with?
- Marginal stupor
- coma
Where does the nasals tip lie?
In the posterior pharynx behind the tongue.
Traumatic insertion of NPA causes?
- Severe epistaxis or
- adenoid bleeding, especially in children.
How is the NPA inserted?
With the beveled edge along the nasal septum.
When using the Left nostril how do you insert it?
Must be inserted upside down to maintain the beveled edge against the septum and then rotate once the upper airway tip is in the posterior pharynx.
The BVM device with a reservoir can deliver a fractional concentration of oxygen in inspired gas of?
-(Fio2) of 90% to 100% at rates of 10 to 15 L/min.
What can be applied to the mask area in contact with beard that surprisingly gives a much better seal?
Water-soluble lubricant.
Children normally have three times the metabolic demand for oxygen as so adults and have a larger reserve capacity?
true or false
- False.
- they usually have twice the metabolic demand for oxygen as do adults and have a smaller reserve capacity.
Endotracheal intubation entails?
Manipulation of the anatomy to allow of an Endotracheal tube through the larynx , either blindly or thorough direct visualization with a laryngoscope.
The larynx or voice box is??
An intricate arrangement of nine cartilages, three single and six paired
How are the cartilages connected?
By membranes and ligaments.
How many muscles is the cartilages composed of?
Nine muscles.
In an adult, it extends from?
The level of the fourth to the sixth cervical vertebrae.
What cartilage is commonly known as the Adam’s apple?
Thyroid cartilage.
Manipulation of the cartilage can displace?
Vocal cords posteriorly and improve laryngeal visualization during laryngoscopy.
Pressure on the cricoid from the anterior neck, is known as?
Sellick maneuver.
-compresses the esophagus and may prevent passive regurgitation of stomach contents during laryngoscopy.
What membrane forms the vocal cords?
-The upper free edge of the cricothyroid membrane.
What is the third single cartilage?
The epiglottis.
-a spoon-shaped structure that lies directly over the glottis opening and prevents anything other than sire from entering the tracheal inlet!
What is a major visual landmark for performance of tracheal intubation?
Epiglottis.
The most important cartilages of the larynx are?
Arytenoids.
The ______________ are pyramid-shaped and anchor the vocal cords in the larynx?
Arystenoids.
What color are the vocal cords?
Pearly white.
What stimulates the airway and activate the defense reflex??
- Excessive secretions or
- spasmodic closure. (Means closure of vocal cords).
What are the two remaining pairs of cartilages?
-the cuneiform and
_the corniculate
Which form the posterior wall of the larynx.
What’s considered the gold standard for artificial airway support?
Intubation of the trachea.
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Trachea intubation provides protection against?
-aspiration.
And allows for controlled and precise ventilation,and provides drug administration.