// PARAMEDIC Question · Advanced Airway & Ventilation

A patient with a known difficult airway is apneic after RSI. You cannot intubate or ventilate with a BVM. Next step is:

A. Insert an LMA or supraglottic airwayCorrect
B. Give more paralytic
C. Perform CPR
D. Transport immediately

// Rationale

Can't intubate, can't ventilate is a rescue airway indication; insert a supraglottic airway or proceed to cricothyrotomy.

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