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The document discusses how to open an obstructed airway through the head-tilt/chin-lift maneuver. Proper positioning involves tilting the head back and lifting the chin to relieve obstruction by the tongue and epiglottis. The maneuver should extend the neck so that the jaw bone is perpendicular to the surface beneath the victim.
The document discusses how to open an obstructed airway through the head-tilt/chin-lift maneuver. Proper positioning involves tilting the head back and lifting the chin to relieve obstruction by the tongue and epiglottis. The maneuver should extend the neck so that the jaw bone is perpendicular to the surface beneath the victim.
The document discusses how to open an obstructed airway through the head-tilt/chin-lift maneuver. Proper positioning involves tilting the head back and lifting the chin to relieve obstruction by the tongue and epiglottis. The maneuver should extend the neck so that the jaw bone is perpendicular to the surface beneath the victim.
Top: Airway obstruction produced by the tongue and the epiglottis. Bottom: Relief by head-tilt/chin-lift.
Head-tilt/chin-lift maneuver. Perpendicular line reflects proper neck extension, i.e., a line along the edge of the jaw bone should be perpendicular to the surface on which the victim is lying.
DR Amsalu Bekele Ass - Professor of Medicine Head of Chest Unit Department of Internal Medicine Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine Addis Ababa, Ethiopia