critical care medicine
How To Insert a Nasopharyngeal Airway
Equipment for Nasopharyngeal Airway
Gloves, mask, and gown Towels, sheets, or commercial devices as needed for placing neck and head into sniffing position Various sizes of nasopharyngeal airways Water-soluble lubricant or anesthetic jelly Suctioning apparatus and Yankauer catheter; Magill forceps (if needed to remove easily accessible foreign bodies and patient has no gag reflex), to clear the pharynx as needed Nasogastric tube, to relieve gastric insufflation as needed 