Hello all, I have a question about a skill on my practical and was hoping you all would be kind enough to offer your opinions.
So the skill was inserting an oral airway, the patient starts to gag, choke and become conscious so we have to suction and then insert a nasal airway....simple enough right?
Well, I didn't suction the nasal, just the oral because that's where the airway was inserted at the time of gagging! So I suctioned the mouth properly I'm sure and asked the instructor if the suction was sufficient, he replied yes so I removed the suction, turned the machine off, measured my nasal airway, lubed it, inserted it(I believe with the bevel toward the septum, but either way that's not a critical fail...I don't think) and that is where I ended the skill.
Do you think I passed or failed?....I'm worried if I should of suctioned the nasal canal as well but like I said, he didn't say anything was wrong with the nasal so I just inserted the airway.
Btw, yes I said BSI and opened the airway with head tilt chin lift after I asked if there was trauma and the instructor said NO. I did make sure there was a patent airway before initially inserting the oral airway, but I didn't specifically verify a patent airway for the nose just because I figured there was since there was for the oral airway in the beginning.
So the skill was inserting an oral airway, the patient starts to gag, choke and become conscious so we have to suction and then insert a nasal airway....simple enough right?
Well, I didn't suction the nasal, just the oral because that's where the airway was inserted at the time of gagging! So I suctioned the mouth properly I'm sure and asked the instructor if the suction was sufficient, he replied yes so I removed the suction, turned the machine off, measured my nasal airway, lubed it, inserted it(I believe with the bevel toward the septum, but either way that's not a critical fail...I don't think) and that is where I ended the skill.
Do you think I passed or failed?....I'm worried if I should of suctioned the nasal canal as well but like I said, he didn't say anything was wrong with the nasal so I just inserted the airway.
Btw, yes I said BSI and opened the airway with head tilt chin lift after I asked if there was trauma and the instructor said NO. I did make sure there was a patent airway before initially inserting the oral airway, but I didn't specifically verify a patent airway for the nose just because I figured there was since there was for the oral airway in the beginning.