You Are Having a Difficult Time Getting Air from the Bag-Valve

question 97

Multiple Choice

You are having a difficult time getting air from the bag-valve mask to pass into the patient's lungs. Your first action should be to:

• A) perform a finger sweep of the airway.
• B) administer abdominal thrusts.
• C) turn the patient on his side and try ventilations again.
• D) perform the head-tilt, chin-lift again.

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Definitions:

Population Mean

The average of a set of values in the entire population.

Sample Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from a sample, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean of the sample.

Z Value

A Z value is a statistical measure representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean.

Confidence Level

A statistical measure expressed as a percentage that indicates the probability that a given interval contains the true parameter or result.