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EMT Basic Exam: Advanced Airway Management of Children and Infants
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EMT Basic Exam: Advanced Airway Management of Children and Infants
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1. The distance from an 8-year-old child’s teeth to his or her midtrachea is
2. You’ve placed an endotracheal tube in a 10-year-old child. As you’re listening to the child’s neck, you hear air escaping. What should you do next?
3. You arrive on the scene to find a 3-year-old male who has difficulty breathing. As you examine him, you notice what looks like a chunk of food lodged in his airway. What should you use to remove the obstruction from the airway?
4. Which of the following factors makes the use of a Miller laryngoscope blade necessary when intubating a child?
5. Which of the following devices should be used to administer oxygen to an infant who is in respiratory distress?
6. You can use all of the following to determine the proper size endotracheal tube to use for a 5-year-old child EXCEPT
7. Because children are more prone to gastric distention, the EMT-Basic should use which of the following to release trapped air from a child’s stomach?
8. You’re treating an unresponsive 6-year-old child at the scene of a car accident who has required several minutes of artificial ventilation. Your partner notices increasing gastric distension, and you decide to place a nasogastric tube. After inserting the tube, you notice much greater resistance to ventilations and the child’s chest does not rise and fall with each artificial breath. Which of the following complications could have occurred?
9. The nasogastric tube has several uses in a hospital setting. Which of the following is NOT a use for the nasogastric tube in a hospital setting?
10. Which of the following could occur if a child is ventilated too forcefully?