respiratory emergencies Questions and Answer | Latest Update 2024/2025
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Respiratory emergencies
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Respiratory Emergencies
You are dispatched to a residence for a young woman with difficulty
breathing. When you arrive, you find the patient sitting in a tripod position,
noticeably dyspneic and tachypneic. She tells you that she experienced a
sudden sharp pain to the left side of her chest and then started having
...
CPAP device, the patient was tachypneic and had an oxygen saturation of
90%. When you reassess him, you note that his respirations have increased
and his oxygen saturation has dropped to 84%. You should:
~~> remove the CPAP unit, assist his ventilations with a bag-mask device,
and prepare to intubate him
On either side of the glottis, tissue forms a pocket called the:
~~> piriform fossae
You respond to the residence of an elderly man with severe COPD. You
recognize the address because you have responded there numerous times in
the recent past. You find the patient, who is clearly emaciated, seated in his
recliner. He is on oxygen via nasal cannula, is semiconscious, and is breathing
inadequately. The patient's daughter tells you that her father has an out-of-
hospital DNR order, for which she is frantically looking. You should:
~~> recognize that he is experiencing end-stage COPD, begin assisting his
ventilations, and contact medical control as needed
Inspiratory and expiratory__________ sounds are both loud, but the inspiratory
sounds are shorter than the expiratory sounds.
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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