551 PEDIATRIC OBSTRUCTED AIRWAY

In pediatric patients who are unconscious or cannot breathe, cough, speak, or cry:

1. Begin Basic Life Support Pediatric Obstructed Airway procedures.

2. Perform Direct Laryngoscopy. Attempt to remove the foreign body with pediatric Magill Forceps.
   • NOTE:
     IF AN ENLARGED EPIGLOTTIS IS VISUALIZED, SEE PROTOCOL #552.

3. Perform Endotracheal Intubation only when other methods of airway control are not effective.

4. Transportation decision.