// PARAMEDIC Question · Advanced Airway & Ventilation

A patient with severe facial trauma and a known difficult airway is hypoxic. The next appropriate intervention is:

A. Rapid sequence intubation
B. Awake intubation or surgical airway preparationCorrect
C. Insertion of a King LT
D. Nasotracheal intubation

// Rationale

Severe facial trauma and difficult airway may require awake intubation or surgical airway preparation.

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