Title: Demonstrate assessment and management of adequate and inadequate ventilation.
Course: Emergency Medical Technician I (14055-I) > Section: Demonstrating Airway Management, Respiration and Ventilation

Demonstration should include

- an explanation of the effect of ventilation on cardiac output
- implementation of
  - artificial ventilation, including continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices
  - minute ventilation
  - alveolar ventilation
  - pulse oximetry
  - automatic transport ventilator (ATV).

Demonstration should also include age-related variations in pediatric and geriatric patients.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How is artificial ventilation given to an adult patient, to a child, and to an infant?
- How is minute ventilation calculated?
- How would an EMT calculate how much oxygen is reaching the alveoli?