While working as an Emergency Medical Responder you have a legal responsibility to provide care. This is called:
A) scope of practice. B) Good Samaritan law.
C) ethics. D) duty to act.
D
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After determining a patient has a complete obstruction of an oral endotracheal tube, your efforts to relieve the obstruction by moving the patient's head and neck and deflating the cuff both fail. What should be your next step?
a. Immediately extubate the patient. b. Try to pass a suction catheter. c. Call for an emergency tracheotomy. d. Apply manual positive pressure.
A person with a history of angina pectoris should always carry:
a. Lithium b. Diuretics c. Antiarrhythmic agents d. Nitroglycerin
Identify at least three top priorities when handling the emotional patient, and why they are important
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following conditions would not be reported with a code from category O02?
a. cornual pregnancy b. molar pregnancy c. missed abortion d. abnormal product of conception