NAIT ACP 2025: ITLS Airway Management UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers

NAIT ACP 2025: ITLS Airway Management UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers

1. Why are initial maneuvers to open - They help reduce patient morbidity and mortality.
the airway and support oxygena-
tion critical in trauma patients?

2. What factors make airway man- the lower airway?
agement difficult in trauma pa-
tients?




3. What are the four main causes of
hypoxia in trauma patients?




4. Why is airway management chal-
lenging in the field?




5. What are the major structures of
the upper airway?


6. What are the major structures of
the larynx?




7. What are the major structures of

, - Low lighting
- Patient location and position
- Chaotic or hostile environment
- Bleeding
- Disrupted anatomy

1. Upper airway obstruction
2. Hypoventilation
3. Pulmonary shunt
4. Pneumothorax

- time-critical.
- The situation is unpredictable.
- Requires options and alternatives.
- Always starts with basic airway techniques.

- Nasopharynx (Delicate, contains turbinates)
- Oropharynx (Includes the hyoid bone)
- Hypopharynx (Includes epiglottis and glottic opening)

- Pyriform fossa
- Laryngeal prominence
- Vocal cords
- Thyroid cartilage
- Cricoid cartilage
- Cricothyroid membrane

- Trachea and bronchi (Carina, mainstem bronchi)
- Lungs (Pleural space, alveolocapillary membrane)




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