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You respond to a call of an explosion at a local chemical company. Upon arrival, the company's hazmat team is decontaminating patients so you can easily treat them. The team extricates a 35-year-old man who is experiencing slight respiratory distress. The care that you should provide FIRST for this patient is:
 
  A) high-flow oxygen.
  B) an immediate head-to-toe trauma assessment.
  C) transport to the local trauma center.
  D) insertion of a supraglottic airway.

Question 2

Your patient is having extreme difficulty breathing and you note bilateral wheezing in all quadrants. She is unable to hold herself upright and has become lethargic. Which of the following should you immediately do?
 
  A) Provide positive pressure ventilation.
  B) Call for Advanced Life Support backup.
  C) Administer oxygen via nonrebreather.
  D) Call for orders to intubate.



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macagn

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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

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tuffie

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Reply 2 on: Jul 2, 2018
Gracias!


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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