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burchfield96

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You are scheduled to give a presentation on cold-related emergencies to an OEC class. In preparing the talk, which of the following points should you emphasize?
 
  a. Prevention of heat loss is crucial in the care of all cold injury patients.
  b. Of the two types of cold-related injuries, a local cold injury, or frostbite, is more life threatening because it can result in the loss of fingers, toes, arms, or legs.
  c. Coma or unresponsiveness in a patient suffering a cold-related injury is actually protective because it decreases the body's energy requirements.
  d. A cold-related emergency becomes critical when body temperature falls below 80F because at that point the body loses the ability to regulate its temperature.

Question 2

Which of the following processes may account for as much as 60 percent of heat loss from the body?
 
  a. Conduction
  b. Respiration
  c. Radiation
  d. Evaporation



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chjcharjto14

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c




burchfield96

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Reply 2 on: Jul 2, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


cici

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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