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While transporting a patient with an Esophageal Tracheal Combitube (ETC) airway in place, the patient regains consciousness and begins gagging on the device. You would immediately:
 
  A) encourage the patient to relax and accept the airway.
  B) contact medical direction for advisement.
  C) deflate the cuffs and remove the airway.
  D) suction the airway through the ETC.

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Your patient is a 24-year-old male Chinese citizen on vacation in the United States. He is in moderate distress, complaining of difficulty breathing and gives a four-day history of runny nose, sore throat, fever, chills, and general malaise with a productive cough. His sputum production was significantly worse when he woke this morning, and he developed difficulty breathing this afternoon. HR = 134, BP = 132/84, RR = 26, SaO2 = 90. This presentation is most consistent with:
 
  A) pneumonia.
  B) tuberculosis.
  C) SARS.
  D) hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.


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