Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2018
A patient in the state of clinical death is being resuscitated through mouth-to-mouth artificial pulmonary ventilation and external cardiac massage. A doctor noticed that air does not flow into the patient’s airways and his head and torso are positioned at the same level. Why is artificial respiration ineffective in the given case?
Answer options
- The patient’s mouth is too small
- Low breathing volume
- Tongue retraction
- Probe is absent from the stomach
- External cardiac massage
Correct answer
Tongue retraction
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