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SOAP ME (intubation)

Suction
Oxygen
Airway
Positioning

Medications
Equipment/ EtCO2

Spoon shaped elastic cartilage that lies behind the tongue.

Prevents aspiration by covering the glottis.

What is the opening of the larynx during swallowing?

Begins at the inferior border of the cricoid cartilage (C6).
About 9-15 cm in length.
Bifurcates into the right and left main bronchi at the level of the sernal angle (t4-T5).

Is a downward and backward projection of the last tracheal cartilage, forms a ridge that separates the opening of the right and left main stem bronchi and occurs at the sternal angle, the junction of T4-T5.