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You and your EMT partner are preparing to ventilate an elderly non-trauma patient who has a stoma. Your partner performs the head tilt, chin lift maneuver and you ask him to return the patient's head to a neutral position. "Why? This is not a pediatric patient!" your partner protests. What would you say?
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