Oropharyngeal airways are rigid plastic curved devices, which are inserted through the patients mouth.

The oropharyngeal airway was designed by Arthur Guedel.

It is the result of macroglossia and mucus membrane swelling in the nasal and oropharyngeal airway.

Higher level practitioners such as emergency medical service personnel may use more advanced techniques, from oropharyngeal airways to intubation, as deemed necessary.

Usual airway management with adjuncts, such as pocket masks and oropharyngeal airways, can be accomplished in the near-drowning victim.

Most schemes also use some further extended skills adjuncts, not normally taught on public first aid courses, such as suction and placement of oropharyngeal airways.

An NPA is often used in conscious patients where an oropharyngeal airway would trigger the gag reflex.

Certain jurisdictions, lifeguards may use airway adjuncts such as nasopharyngeal airways and oropharyngeal airways.

His airway was opened up by a Geelong trainer with a oropharyngeal airway before he was taken off on a stretcher.

Healthcare professionals are recommended to use, if available, an oropharyngeal airway: in the infant, placed by the use of a tongue depressor and without rotating.

In general, oropharyngeal airways need to be sized and inserted correctly to maximize effectiveness and minimize possible complications, such as oral trauma.

• Prepare to protect and support airway should vomiting occur (e.g., oropharyngeal airway, suction)

In other circumstances simple airway maneuvres, an oropharyngeal airway or laryngeal mask airway may be employed.

Oropharyngeal airway (OPA)

Oropharyngeal airways are indicated only in unconscious people, because of the likelihood that the device would stimulate a gag reflex in conscious or semi-conscious persons.

Such devices include the laryngeal mask airway, cuffed oropharyngeal airway and the esophageal-tracheal combitube (Combitube).

A curved plastic oropharyngeal airway was pressed into her palm and she took a second to work the plastic into Silva's throat to keep his airway patent.

Airway patency of the unconscious patient is maintained either by manipulation of the jaw or by the use of nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal airway.

An oropharyngeal airway should only be used in a deeply unresponsive patient because in a responsive patient they can cause vomiting and aspiration by stimulating the gag reflex.

If the risk of asphyxiation is deemed high, doctors may use various devices (such as an oropharyngeal airway, nasopharyngeal airway or endotracheal tube) to safeguard the airway.

Oropharyngeal Airway, a hard "J" shaped plastic device that secures an oral airway, and can also be used to keep the teeth open for a more permanent airway device.

Current scope of practice: Entonox, methoxyflurane, paracetamol, aspirin, oxygen therapy, intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV), oropharyngeal airway (OPA).

An oropharyngeal airway (also known as an oral airway, OPA or Guedel pattern airway) is a medical device called an airway adjunct used to maintain or open a patient's airway.

While manual bag valve mask devices supply oxygen-enriched air through a facial mask (without maintaining an open airway), automatic devices utilize an oropharyngeal airway (e.g., Bergman or Guedel airways), which ensures airway patency.

Ventilate the lungs with oxygen (high flow more than 10 litres/minute into bag) either using a bag and mask with an oropharyngeal airway (link to Bag/mask ventilation) or with a bag connected to the endotracheal tube.

While manual bag valve mask devices supply oxygen-enriched air through a facial mask (without maintaining an open airway), automatic devices utilize an oropharyngeal airway (e.g., Bergman or Guedel airways), which ensures airway patency.

The device customarily used to clear the airway - an ungainly plastic tube called Guedel Airways that is inserted into the mouth of the patient - requires a precise measurement to work effectively and is too technically difficult to be used by laymen.