// 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.