Author Question: You are responding to a drug-related emergency. While en route, the dispatcher informs you that the ... (Read 26 times)

burton19126 · **on:** Jul 3, 2018

You are responding to a drug-related emergency. While en route, the dispatcher informs you that the patient has overdosed on an unspecified narcotic. Which of the following statements made to your partner indicates an understanding of overdoses with narcotic drugs?

A) We will have to be careful because narcotic overdoses can cause hallucinations, and the patient may be violent.
B) When performing the primary assessment, we need to be alert for respiratory depression.
C) If the patient is conscious, we will have to ask about chest pain since narcotics can increase the heart's workload.
D) We need to look at the pupils. If they are dilated, the patient has indeed taken a narcotic.

Question 2

Which of the following types of congenital anomalies is most common?

A) Neural tube defects
B) Diaphragmatic hernia
C) Heart defects
D) Cleft lip and cleft palate