Emergency Airway Access for ER Vets

Lädt!
Which of the following clinical signs is associated with upper airway obstruction?
Inspiratory dyspnea
Expiratory dyspnea
Asynchronous breathing
Flail chest
 
Which of the following is not a reason for an emergency tracheotomy
Severe laryngeal swelling
Laryngeal collapse
Sublingual hematoma
Laryngeal foreign body that cannot be retrieved
 
Which of the following statements regarding emergency tracheotomy is true?
An emergency tracheotomy is easiest done in sternal position
The trachea should not be incised more than 50% of the tracheal circumference
The tracheostomy tube is sutured to the skin
After removal of the tracheostomy tube the trachea is sutured
 
Which statement regarding removal of a tracheostomy tube is true?
The tracheal and skin incision are not sutured
The trachea is sutured, and the skin is healing by second healing
The trachea is not sutured but the skin incision is disinfected and sutured
Both the trachea and the skin incision are disinfected and sutured
 
Which statement regarding emergency tracheostomy is true?
The skin incision is made from the 3rd tracheal to the 5th tracheal ring
The scalpel blade is used to dissect the muscles and free the trachea
The trachea is incised between to tracheal rings
The tracheostomy tube is sutured to the trachea
 
Which of the following statements regarding tracheostomy tube care is true?
Patients with a tracheostomy tube need to be deeply sedated or anesthetized
Supplemental oxygen applied via trach tube should be humidified
The tracheostomy tube should be kept in place for as long as possible
The tracheostomy tube is suctioned once a day
 
Which of the following sedatives is preferred to sedate a brachycephalic dog with a tracheostomy tube?
Methadone
Butorphanol
Medetomidine
Diazepam
 
Which of the following statements is true?
Tracheostomy tubes are inserted retrograde
Tracheostomy tubes act as a foreign body leading to mucous production
Treachostomy tubes need to be cuffed to decrease aspiration pneumonia
Stay sutures are placed to keep the tube in place
 
Inspiratory stridor in a dog with a tracheostomy is a sign of
Tube obstruction
Tube kinking
Mucous accumulation within the tube
All of the above
 
Where are stay sutures in a tracheostomy placed
Laterally of the tracheal incision
Cranially and caudally of the tracheal incision through skin, muscle and tracheal rings
Cranially and caudally of the skin incision through the skin
Cranially and caudally of the tracheal incision around the closest tracheal ring