Title: Demonstrate airway management.
Course: Emergency Medical Responder (14055-IV) > Section: Demonstrating Psychomotor Skills

Demonstration should include

- techniques for opening the airway
- techniques for clearing the airway
- measurement and insertion of airway adjuncts
- use of the bag-valve mask device and other oxygen delivery devices.

Process/Skill Questions:

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

Teacher Resources:

- Virginia Scope of Practice Formulary
- Virginia Scope of Practice Procedures