Section: Module 4: Lesson 2: Airway Management | Didactic Emergency Medicine | NextGenU.org

  • Learning objectives
    • List the indications for emergency airway management.
    • Demonstrate effective ventilation.
    • List the factors that can make BVM difficult or impossible.
    • Describe the roles and indications for various airway adjuncts.
    • Demonstrate correct placement of a nasal and oral pharyngeal airway.
    • List the indications for endotracheal intubation.
    • List the steps in orotracheal intubation.
    • Describe possible complications of intubation.
    • Describe situations when rescue techniques may be used in a failed airway.
    Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 163 mins.

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    • Required Learning Resources and Activities
    • Review Table 1

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      Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2: Airway Establishment and Control

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    • What are three key pieces of advice that you wish the general public would know about the Heimlich maneuver?

    • Go through this entire module

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      Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2: Basic Airway Management

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    • Name three possible negative consequences the patient may face if airway management fails to precede all other treatments.

    • Ask your supervisor to review the institutional specific policies and procedures for bag-mask ventilation with you along with the proper positioning of the patient. Ask him/ her to guide you in the practice of ventilating a patient using this method and practice this skill until you are comfortable. 

      Click on the submit button and write one sentence that indicates you have performed this activity. If for some reason you cannot perform the activity, please indicate that and the reason why you were unable to perform the activity. Your mentor will grade your activity on a pass/fail basis.

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      Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2: Airway Management

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    • Ask your supervisor to review the materials related to the insertion of airway adjuncts along with any institutional specific policies and procedures with you and guide you in the practice of the insertion of airway adjuncts.

      Click on the submit button and write one sentence that indicates you have performed this activity. If for some reason you cannot perform the activity, please indicate that and the reason why you were unable to perform the activity. Your mentor will grade your activity on a pass/fail basis.

    • Go through this entire module

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      Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2: Advanced Airway Management

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    • Describe the correct head and neck position for airway management, and why this position is important.