Title: Demonstrate airway management.
Course: Emergency Medical Responder (14055-IV) > Section: Performing Clinical Behavior and Judgment Assessments

Demonstration should include

- techniques for opening the airway (e.g., head-tilt, chin-lift, and jaw-thrust)
- use of a suction catheter to clear the airway
- proper measurement and insertion of airway adjuncts (e.g., oropharyngeal airway [OPA], nasopharyngeal airway [NPA])
- use of the bag-valve mask device with supplemental oxygen to ventilate a nonbreathing patient.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is meant by respiratory distress?
- When is an airway adjunct appropriate?