How would an EMT best describe a confused and combative patient with labored respirations and a blood glucose level of 33 mg/dL?
A) Hypoglycemic
B) Altered blood glucose
C) Hyperglycemic
D) Hyper-insulinemic
A) Hypoglycemic
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Your patient is awake and complaining of chest pain. His airway is patent, and he is breathing at 18 times per minute with adequate tidal volume. What is your next action?
A) Administer oxygen at 15 lpm via nonrebreather mask. B) Begin positive pressure ventilations via bag-valve-mask device. C) Insert a nasopharyngeal airway. D) Administer oxygen at 2 lpm via nasal cannula.
You and your partner are en route to a motor vehicle crash involving a tanker truck on a rural road. Dispatch informs you that fluid is leaking from the truck, that there are several bystanders passed out on the ground near the cab of the truck, and that a caller has reported the code that appears on a placard attached to the tanker truck. You should:
A) consult the Emergency Response Guidebook. B) remove the bystanders from the scene. C) park downwind from the tanker truck. D) park about 50 feet from the truck.
Why does a patient who had a thrombotic incident receive both heparin and Coumadin for 4-5 days before heparin is discontinued?
a. Heparin is not effective as an anticoagulant without Coumadin. b. Coumadin requires heparin for its full anticoagulant effect. c. Coumadin and heparin have a synergistic effect d. Coumadin 's full effect is not achieved for 4- days after initiation because of the half-life of the vitamin K coagulation factors.
Meter and centimeter are metric measures for measuring ________
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.