Your Patient Is a 3-Year-Old Child Who Is in Severe

Your patient is a 3-year-old child who is in severe respiratory distress.She is cyanotic and responds only to painful stimuli.According to the patient's mother,the child had complained of a sore throat earlier and has had a fever since early in the morning.Which of the following is the BEST course of action?

A) Perform abdominal thrusts and finger sweeps; attempt to ventilate.
B) Suction the airway.
C) Insert an oropharyngeal airway (OPA) and begin bag-valve-mask ventilations with supplemental oxygen.
D) Begin gentle ventilations with a bag-valve mask (BVM) and supplemental oxygen.