You are treating a patient for whom lidocaine is ordered at 1 mg/kg via IV push. The lidocaine is packaged as a 1 percent solution containing 100 mg/10 mL. The patient weighs 198 pounds. What is the patient's weight in kilograms? How many milliliters will you give? How many milligrams are contained in the amount of fluid given?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2
An AEMT's verbal communication and documentation of ________ and ________ findings provide information that hospital staff otherwise might NOT have.
A) mechanism of injury; general impression
B) scene size-up; primary assessment
C) nature of illness; general impression
D) scene size-up; reassessment
Patient Teaching
Effective listening skills demonstrate empathy to the patient and break down barriers to communicati
Patient health history form.
Walkers help the patient ambulate safely.
Areas of sclerosis (see arrows) in the white matter of a patient with MS.
An automobile engine provides 524 Joules of work to push the pistons and generates 2160 Joules ...