You Are Instructing an Emergency Medical Responder Course

You are instructing an Emergency Medical Responder course. One of the students asks you how the head-tilt, chin-lift airway maneuver works to open the airway. Your response is:

A) "It opens the airway by lifting the tongue from the back of the throat."
B) "It creates an open airway by separating the lips, thus allowing air to enter."
C) "It stimulates the patient to begin taking deeper breaths, thus moving air into the lungs."
D) "It opens the airway by relaxing and expanding the size of the throat."