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NREMT Advanced EMT Practice Test #1

Category - EMT-I/85

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During your professional career as an Advanced EMT, you will at some time find it difficult to maintain a seal around a patient’s mouth with an artificial ventilation system. What appliance or technique provides the best seal?
  1. Pocket mask
  2. Tapping a bag-valve-mask to the patients head
  3. Have the patient hold the bag-valve-mask.
  4. Insert an oropharyngeal airway
Explanation
Answer - A - The best way to ensure a complete seal when providing artificial ventilation is to use a pocket mask. The pocket mask requires both hands and can be utilized to maintain the proper head tilt and a tight seal to the face while blowing through the protruding tube with your mouth.
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