Question

An emergency management team is removing foreign bodies and performing cricothyroidotomy on a client post burn injury. which emergency assessment has been performed on this client?

Answer 1

The emergency management team first assess the patient before cricithyroidotomy is perform. They do the jaw thrust maneuver where one will hold the tilt head in place and perform the ventilations while the other will do chest compressions. Next, they will check the nasopharyngeal airway for air and if the previous measures are unsuccessful, a cricothyroidotomy is perform to established airway due to airway obstruction by foreign bodies.