// EMT Question · Airway, Respiration & Ventilation
You are ventilating an apneic adult with a BVM. The chest is not rising. Your NEXT step is:
A. Increase ventilation rate
B. Reposition the head and reattemptCorrect
C. Perform abdominal thrusts
D. Insert a supraglottic airway
// Rationale
First correction for inadequate BVM ventilation is repositioning the airway and reattempting.