Author Question: Your patient is a 3-year-old child who is in severe respiratory distress. She is cyanotic and ... (Read 164 times)

javeds · **on:** Jul 3, 2018

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.

Question 2

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