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You are responding to an explosion at an industrial facility. During your triage, you find a patient who is not breathing, even after you open the airway. Which color tag should be placed on this patient?
 
  A) Red B) Black C) Yellow D) Green

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A patient was stabbed in the right anterior chest and is in obvious respiratory distress. As you perform the secondary assessment, which of the following signs and/or symptoms would concern you that she is suffering from a tension pneumothorax?
 
  A) Absent breath sounds on the right, distended neck veins, tracheal deviation to the left
  B) Absent breath sounds on the left, hypotension, SpO2 at 98, bradycardia
  C) Respiratory distress, absent breath sounds on the left, flat neck veins, tachycardia
  D) Absent breath sounds on the right, tracheal deviation to the right, cyanosis



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

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Reply 2 on: Jul 2, 2018
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