Author Question: You are on the scene of a person down. You arrive at a college dormitory and find a 21-year-old ... (Read 135 times)

scienceeasy · **on:** Jul 3, 2018

You are on the scene of a person down. You arrive at a college dormitory and find a 21-year-old patient lying supine on the floor, unresponsive. The patient is guppy breathing at 5 times a minute, has a strong radial pulse at 110 beats per minute, and has vomited on himself. Friends state they went out to dinner and a party. They returned to change clothes for another party and he never came out of his room. Your partner suctions the patient, inserts an oropharyngeal airway, and ventilates the patient with a bag-valve mask with high-concentration oxygen. You listen to lung sounds and there are coarse rhonchi bilaterally. What condition do you suspect?

A) Overdose B) Aspiration C) Severe meningitis D) Status asthmaticus

Question 2

A well-designed communications plan for an EMS system should include:

a. multiple control centers.
b. operational communications capabilities.
c. satellite uplinks.
d. federally approved medical protocols.