A patient with epiglottitis would typically exhibit:
a. inspiratory stridor, pain on swallowing, high fever, and drooling.
b. expiratory wheezing, coughing, rales, and cyanosis.
c. inspiratory stridor, seal-bark cough, low-grade fever, and orthopnea.
d. expiratory wheezing, rales, coughing, high fever.
Question 2
You have responded to a call of patient with difficulty breathing at a rural location. As memory serves you, the farmhouse you are responding to has been abandoned for years. As you approach on the main road, you see several vehicles parked around the house, although it is apparent that the house is not in livable condition. For which of the following should you maintain a high index of suspicion?
A) The house may have been taken over by area teenagers as a place to have sex and use alcohol.
B) The house was never really abandoned; it has been inhabited by an old hermit for many years.
C) The house may be serving as a clandestine drug lab.
D) The house has been occupied by an indigent family who may be using a source of heat that releases carbon monoxide.
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