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javeds

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Your patient is a 3-year-old child who is in severe respiratory distress. She is cyanotic and responds only to painful stimuli. According to the patient's mother, the child had complained of a sore throat earlier and has had a fever since early in the morning. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?
 
  A) Suction the airway.
  B) Begin gentle ventilations with a bag-valve mask (BVM) and supplemental oxygen.
  C) Insert an oropharyngeal airway (OPA) and begin bag-valve-mask ventilations with supplemental oxygen.
  D) Perform abdominal thrusts and finger sweeps; attempt to ventilate.

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What is the name of the heart dysfunction caused by an electrical source that causes the heart to beat too fast?
 
  A) Trauma B) Heart attack C) Bradycardia D) Tachycardia


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yeungji

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Reply #1 on: Jul 3, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

D


javeds

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Reply 2 on: Jul 3, 2018
Gracias!

Joy Chen

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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