Author Question: You are documenting your assessment of the patient who just left in an ambulance. The patient told ... (Read 120 times)

arivle123 · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

You are documenting your assessment of the patient who just left in an ambulance. The patient told you that he felt short of breath. You would document this as:

a. respiratory failure.
b. hypoxia.
c. dyspnea.
d. anoxia.

Question 2

Involuntary breathing in patients without significant respiratory disease is controlled by:

a. the amount of carbon dioxide dissolved in the blood.
b. a conscious effort of inspiration.
c. the amount of oxygen dissolved in the blood.
d. tissue hypoxia.