Your medical director is holding an in-service program focusing on the prehospital management of adult patients with respiratory complaints. He asks the group to explain how they can determine if the patient is breathing adequately. Which response is most appropriate?
A) "A patient is breathing adequately if the depth of breathing is shallow, but the rate is increased above normal."
B) "If the pulse oximeter reads 94% or greater, then the patient is breathing adequately."
C) "For an adult patient to be breathing adequately, the rate should be within 8 to 24 breaths/min with a full chest rise with each breath."
D) "The EMT can assume breathing is adequate if the patient has an open airway and a normal respiratory rate."
C) "For an adult patient to be breathing adequately, the rate should be within 8 to 24 breaths/min with a full chest rise with each breath."
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