Author Question: The BEST way to give the emergency department an idea of the severity of blood loss for a patient ... (Read 114 times)

Anajune7 · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

The BEST way to give the emergency department an idea of the severity of blood loss for a patient with vaginal bleeding is to:

A) compare the total blood loss to that of a normal menses.
B) determine if the patient is hypotensive from excessive blood loss.
C) determine how many sanitary pads are saturated in one hour.
D) compare the blood loss to what is lost during childbirth.

Question 2

You suspect that your patient has been exposed to carbon monoxide due to a faulty furnace. How does carbon monoxide harm the body?

A) It causes a lethal increase in blood pressure.
B) Alveoli swell from the overload of carbon monoxide.
C) CO knocks oxygen from the hemoglobin molecule.
D) It increases aspiration pneumonia from vomiting.