You respond to a patient with difficulty breathing. Upon assessment you notice that the patient is sitting in the tripod position, with marked JVD. The patient has clubbing of the fingers and new pitting edema. You should suspect:

Which of these is NOT a structure of the upper airway?

Which of these findings is most suggestive of an esophageal intubation when attempting to intubate the trachea?

Your patient is a 24-year-old male Chinese citizen on vacation in the United States. He is in moderate distress, complaining of difficulty breathing and gives a four-day history of runny nose, sore throat, fever, chills, and general malaise with a productive cough. His sputum production was significantly worse when he woke this morning, and he developed difficulty breathing this afternoon. HR = 134, BP = 132/84, RR = 26, SaO2 = 90 percent. This presentation is most consistent with:

During the management of a throat cancer patient who had a complete laryngectomy and now has a stoma, is having heaving secretions from his stoma tube. As you prepare to suction him and recall the proper procedure, which step is INCORRECT?

Which manual airway opening maneuver should be used when you are caring for a patient with a suspected cervical spine injury?

Applying posteriorly directed pressure on the cricoid cartilage to facilitate positive pressure ventilation with a BVM in the nonintubated patient is also referred to as:

Match the prefix to the meaning.

To divide the body into upper and lower portions, the transverse plane is used.

___________ is a type of connective tissue membrane that lines the cavity of a freely movable joint.