critical care medicine
How To Insert an Oropharyngeal Airway
Equipment for Oropharyngeal Airway
Gloves, mask, and gown Towels, sheets, or commercial devices as needed for placing neck and head into sniffing position Various sizes of oropharyngeal airways Suctioning apparatus and Yankauer catheter; Magill forceps (if needed to remove easily accessible foreign bodies), to clear the pharynx as needed Nasogastric tube, to relieve gastric insufflation as needed 