Which of the following is the EMT's role in caring for a patient with chest pain?
A) Determine the cause of the patient's chest pain.
B) Make an interpretation of the patient's cardiac rhythm.
C) Treat the patient as though he were having a heart attack.
D) Provide automatic external defibrillation.
Question 2
Your patient has a device implanted under the skin of his upper left chest. His wife states that it is an AICD. This device is used to:
A) assist in pumping blood for patients with severe heart failure.
B) detect and defibrillate life-threatening heart rhythms.
C) deliver insulin to diabetic patients in precise dosages.
D) provide tube feedings to patients who cannot swallow.
Testing Visual Fields by Confrontation: The nurse and patient should be approximately at an eye to e
Pulmonary function test: spirometry. (a) Normal respiratory volumes, as measured during spirometry.
Health care - patient-centered
Phases of pain physiology.
(a) Chicken pox vesicles. (b) Chicken pox on back of young patient.
Sites of referred pain