[Answered]: Time On This Question: 01:17 6

Time On This Question: 01:17 6. You arrive at a scene with a patient in respiratory distress. Shortly into your assessment the patient becomes unconscious and stops breathing. You begin to ventilate with a BVM and an OPA in place. Your ventilations do not produce chest rise. Your partner removes the patient’s shirt and you see the patient has a stoma. You begin ventilating through the stoma with the BVM. Because the ventilations are through a stoma, which of the following will most likely secur? Forceful ventilations will cause gastric distension. Adequate minute ventilation will be difficult to achieve. Inless the seal is adequate, air will escape around the stoma.