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Oropharyngeal Airway
Aka: Oropharyngeal Airway, Oral Airway
- Indications
- Airway maintenance in the unconscious patient
- Protects an Endotracheal Tube from being bitten
- Facilitates Airway Suctioning
- Sizing
- General Sizing
- Flange at corner of mouth
- Tip at jaw angle
- Adult
- Large: 100 mm flange to tip (Guedel 5)
- Medium: 90 mm flange to tip (Guedel 4)
- Small: 80 mm flange to tip (Guedel 3)
- Child
- Lengths: 40-80 mm (Guedel sizes 000 to 3)
- Images

- Technique
- Suction airway of secretions, blood, vomit
- Method 1 (Children)
- Tongue depressor holds down Tongue for insertion
- Method 2 (Only use in adults)
- If used in child, then risk of Soft Palate injury
- Oral Airway is inverted for insertion
- Rotated 180 degrees as the Oral Airway approaches
- posterior oropharynx
- Complications
- Oral Airway too long
- Obstructs Larynx by forcing down epiglottis
- Oral Airway too short
- Tongue obstruction of airway
- Vomiting and laryngospasm in the awake patient