You are ventilating an apneic woman with a bag-mask device. She has dentures, which are tight-fitting. Adequate chest rise is present with each ventilation, and the patient's oxygen saturation reads 96%. When you reassess the patency of her airway, you note that her dentures are now loose, although your ventilations are still producing adequate chest rise. You should:
A. remove her dentures, resume ventilations, and assess for adequate chest rise.
B. attempt to replace her dentures so that they fit tightly and resume ventilations.
C. leave her dentures in place, but carefully monitor her for an airway obstruction.
D. remove her dentures at once and increase the rate and volume of your ventilations.
Answer: A. remove her dentures, resume ventilations, and assess for adequate chest rise.
You might also like to view...
Which are employers providing to help improve the health and wellness of their workers?
A) Health risk assessments B) Stress management classes C) Healthy food in vending machines D) Discounts on fitness club memberships E) All of the above F) None of the above
Chronic follicular conjunctivitis of the right eye is reported with code _____
a. H10.411 b. H10.423 c. H10.431 d. H10.439