critical care medicine
How To Do Head Tilt–Chin Lift and Jaw Thrust Maneuvers
Introduction
Part of pre-intubation and emergency rescue breathing procedures, the head tilt–chin lift maneuver and the jaw-thrust maneuver are 2 noninvasive, manual means to help restore upper airway patency when the tongue occludes the glottis, which commonly occurs in an obtunded or unconscious patient. (See also Overview of Respiratory Arrest and These methods require active ongoing attendance by the operator and are an integral part of How To Do Bag-Valve-Mask (BVM) Ventilation (BVM). Positioning of the patient in a proper Head and neck positioning to open the airway: Sniffing position , when possible, is a prerequisite to these manual methods as well as to the invasive methods of airway management (ie, These methods should be supplemented with use of How To Insert an Oropharyngeal Airway or The addition of Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) may achieve airway patency when these manual methods alone fail. 