1. What is a BVM?
2. What kind of patients would you use it on?
3. What are a couple problems with BVM's?
4. An adult BVM will deliver what amount of air?
5. Can O2 be used with a BVM?
6. Would you use a nasal or oral airway with a BVM?
7. Do BVM's come in different sizes?
8. Can they be used with an infant? An infant with an oral airway?
9. What airway device delivers low flow O2?
10. What is the flowmeter range for a simple face mask?
11. To give a pt 28 or 35% O2 exactly, what is best device?
12. What is the advantage of a nonrebreather?
13. Can a nonrebreather be used on an unconscious pt? On a conscious pt?
14. What % O2 can be delivered with a demand valve?
15. Is a demand valve for breathing or nonbreathing pts?
16. Who gets an EOA?
17. What position is the patients head in when inserting the EOA?
18. What part of the anatomy does an EOA obstruct when inserted properly?
19. Can an EOA be used for respiratory arrest, with or without cardiac arrest?
20. Because it happens almost everytime the EOA is removed, what piece of equipment should the EMT have ready?
21. What is the insertion sequence to follow when inserting an EOA?
22. Should you wear any protective devices when inserting the EOA?
23. What color are most O2 tanks?
24. What size is the portable unit carried in ambulances?
25. How does the yankauer, rigid, or tonsil tip suction work?
26. Long term COPD pt in severe respiratory distress gets how much O2, and how is it delivered?
27. A breathing person in hypovolemic shock gets how much O2 and how is it delivered?
28. If O2 does not technically burn, are all the signs wrong that say, "NO SMOKING OR OPEN FLAMES. OXYGEN IN USE"?
29. How is the proper size of an orapharyngeal airway determined?
30. How is the proper size of a nasopharyngeal airway determined?
31. Can a nasal or oral airway be used if the patient has a gag reflex?
32. The flow rate for a nasal cannula is how many liters per minute?
33. The same indications and contraindications apply for both the EOA and the COMBITUBE. What are they?
34. Why is it easier for one person to get a good mask seal when using a demand valve instead of a BVM?
35. Being quick and having a consistently high tidal volume are advantages to what ventilating technique?
36. What is gastric distention?
37. How do you prevent gastric distention?
38. Is gastric distention more common in adults or children?
39. The preferred method of O2 delivery to a breathing trauma victim, is what?
40. What does pink skin color indicate when an adult patient is being ventilated with a BVM?
41. Is pale skin color the best sign of inadequate breathing?
42. What are some signs of inadequate breathing?
43. How long should a patient be suctioned?
44. How many mmHg of vacuum should there be in a suction unit?
45. When doing CPR on a person who had a cardiac arrest on his couch, how do you open the airway?
46. When doing CPR on a person who had been diving into a swimming pool and was pulled out unconscious, how would you open the airway?
47. Equal expansion of the chest is the best indicator of what?
48. What is the difference between inspiration and expiration?
