Airway Management with an iGel [NREMT skill]

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[@codymadrid720]

Good stuff man

[@craigmelchiano72]

PS: would you do all this, just like you showed here, but then also attach oxygen?

[@franciscoh6210]

I'm ab a month late, but supplemental oxygen would be delivered at 15L/min thru your typical oxygen tubing connected to the bag-valve assembly, just like you would with the mask rather than the I-Gel. You could ventilate on room air, but you would expect oxygenation to be not very effective.

[@craigmelchiano72]

amateur question, forgive me...What if you were doing all this to a patient, but the reason they were not breathing is because they had something stuck in their trachea (wind pipe)? like a grape or nut? Wouldn't you doing all this make it worse? How would we know? Thank you.

[@jaymarvel2424]

Before you insert an airway, you check if the airway is patent. If there is something in the airway (FBAO) then you would try and remove it with a laryngoscope and McGill forceps. (At least thats how I have been taught)