First Responder EMS Curriculum for Training Centers in Eurasia

14. Describe how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in a responsive child withcomplete obstruction or partial airway obstruction and poor air exchange.15. Describe how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in a responsive infant withcomplete obstruction or partial airway obstruction and poor air exchange.16. Describe how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in an unresponsive adult.17. Describe how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in an unresponsive child.18. Describe how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in an unresponsive infant.b. Affective ObjectivesAt the completion of this lesson, the First Responder student will be able to:1. Explain why basic life support ventilation and airway protective skills take priorityover most other basic life support skills.2. Demonstrate a caring attitude toward patients with airway problems who requestemergency medical services.3. Place the interests of the patient with airway problems as the foremost considerationwhen making any and all patient care decisions.4. Communicate with empathy to patients with airway problems, as well as withfamily members and friends of the patient.c. Psychomotor ObjectivesAt the completion of this lesson, the First Responder student will be able to:1. Demonstrate the steps in the head-tilt chin-lift.2. Demonstrate the steps in the jaw thrust.3. Demonstrate the techniques of suctioning.4. Demonstrate the steps in mouth-to-mouth ventilation with body substance isolation(barrier shields).5. Demonstrate how to use a resuscitation mask to ventilate a patient.6. Demonstrate how to ventilate a patient with a stoma.7. Demonstrate how to measure and insert an oropharyngeal (oral) airway.8. Demonstrate how to measure and insert a nasopharyngeal (nasal) airway.9. Demonstrate how to ventilate infant and child patients.10. Demonstrate how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in a responsive adult.11. Demonstrate how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in a responsive child.12. Demonstrate how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in a responsive infant.13. Demonstrate how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in an unresponsiveadult.14. Demonstrate how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in an unresponsivechild.15. Demonstrate how to clear a foreign body airway obstruction in an unresponsiveinfant.2. The Respiratory Systema. FunctionThe function of the respiratory system is to deliver oxygen to the body and to removecarbon dioxide from the body.62First Responder EMS Curriculum/AIHA, July 2002