Author Question: Your patient is a 60-year-old female with a sudden onset of severe difficulty breathing. She has no ... (Read 126 times)

mpobi80 · **on:** Jul 3, 2018

Your patient is a 60-year-old female with a sudden onset of severe difficulty breathing. She has no prior history of respiratory problems. Which of the following should be done before applying oxygen by nonrebreather mask?

A) Obtain a history of the present illness. B) Listen to the patient's breath sounds.
C) Check the patient's oxygen saturation level. D) None of the above

Question 2

An EMT is correct when he describes a communicable disease as:

A) any of a number of diseases that are deadly once contracted.
B) a disease that can be spread from one person to another.
C) any disease that is caused and spread by a viral agent.
D) a disease for which no immunization or treatment exists.