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.
Question 2
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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