EMT Chapter 10 Quiz Part 1
Jeremiah
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You answer a call to a restaurant where you Insert an oral airway and begin ventilations with BVM
find an unresponsive 50-year-old woman
laying on the floor. She appears cyanotic
and you do not detect chest rise and fall.
There are no signs of traumatic injury. What
should you do first?
You are assisting ventilations with a BVM and Reposition the airway by bringing the head back to a neutral position, then reopen the
notice the patient's chest does not rise and airway and attempt to ventilate.
fall with each ventilation. What should you
do?
How can gastric distention be prevented Provide slow, gentle breaths during artificial ventilation over 1 second.
when performing artificial ventilations?
Which of the following is contraindicated in a insertion of a nasal airway
patient who has sustained a head injury?
While you are performing artificial roll the patient onto his side to allow for drainage of emesis
ventilations on a patient, he vomits. What
should you do?
What is respiration? the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the alveoli and tissues.
Excellent indicators of respiration include skin color
level of consciousness and what else?
What is the preferred method of ventilating a A mouth-to-mask with one-way valve
patient?
What is the main problem with positive- Cardiac output drops
pressure ventilation?
Which of the following is an indication of stridor
poor air exchange?
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