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Caiter2013

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Your patient is a 66-year-old female who has regained a pulse after a shock with an AED; however, she remains unresponsive and is not breathing adequately. Which of the following should be done next?
 
  A) Deliver a fourth shock to improve the patient's respiratory status.
  B) Remove the AED and assist the patient's ventilations with a bag-valve mask and supplemental oxygen, and keep re-assessing the pulse.
  C) Apply a nonrebreather mask with high-concentration oxygen and keep reassessing the pulse.
  D) Assist ventilations with a bag-valve-mask device and supplemental oxygen and anticipate that the patient may go back into cardiac arrest.

Question 2

A patient who is responsive to painful stimuli has a patent airway, inadequate respirations at 28 per minute, and a strong radial pulse with skin that is warm and dry. The patient is not moving his right arm or leg and is incontinent of urine. Which one of the following should the EMT do first?
 
  A) Insert an oropharyngeal airway.
  B) Administer oxygen by nonrebreather mask.
  C) Administer positive pressure ventilation.
  D) Check the blood glucose level.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

C



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