AIRWAY, OXYGEN, VENTILATION SKILLS
SUPPLEMENTAL OXYGEN ADMINISTRATION
This station is designed to test your ability to correctly assemble the equipment needed to administer supplemental oxygen in the pre-hospital setting. This is an isolated skills test. You will be required to assemble an oxygen tank and regulator and administer oxygen to a patient using a nonrebreather mask. At this point you will be instructed to discontinue oxygen administration by the nonrebreather mask because the patient cannot tolerate the mask and start oxygen administration using a nasal cannula. Once you have initiated oxygen administration using a nasal cannula, you will be instructed to discontinue oxygen administration completely. You may use only the equipment available in this room. Do you have any questions?
Takes or verbalizes body substance isolation precautions
Assembles regulator to tank
Opens tank
Checks for leaks
Checks tank pressure
Attaches non-rebreather mask
Prefills reservoir
Adjusts liter flow to 12 liters/minute or greater
Applies and adjusts mask to the patient's face
THE EXAMINER ADVISES THE CANDIDATE THAT THE PATIENT IS NOT TOLERATING THE NON-REBREATHER MASK. MEDICAL DIRECTION HAS ORDERED YOU TO APPLY A NASAL CANNULA TO THE PATIENT
Attaches nasal cannula to oxygen
Adjusts liter flow up to 6 liters/minute or less
Applies nasal cannula to the patient
THE EXAMINER TELLS THE CANDIDATE TO DISCONTINUE OXYGEN THERAPY
Removes the nasal cannula
Shuts off the regulator
Relieves the pressure within the regulator
CRITICAL CRITERIA
Did not take or verbalize body substance isolation precautions
Did not assemble the tank and regulator without leaks
Did not prefill the reservoir bag
Did not adjust the device to the correct liter flow for the non-rebreather
mask (12 L/min or greater)
Did not adjust the device to the correct liter flow for the nasal cannula
(up to 6 L/min)