Question

A 2-year-old child was playing with his toy cars outside when his mother noticed the child becoming cyanotic. You and your partner arrive on scene to find that one of the wheels from the truck has become lodged in the child's throat. Where is the wheel most likely lodged?

Answer 1

The correct answer would be - cricoid cartilage (upto age of 5).

Step-by-step explanation:

Discoloration or bluish color near the skin. It is occurred due to the high blood level with decreased hemoglobin in the near the skin surface. Hemoglobin is the protein that helps in transport of oxygen in the blood. This condition of bluish skin color due to deoxygenated blood known as the cyanotic.

Cricoid cartilage is the narrowest part of a child's airway until about the age of 5, where the wheel of the truck most probably stuck or lodged.

Thus, the correct answer is - cricoid cartilage