As the AEMT responsible for triage at a motor-vehicle collision, you find a patient who is breathing 18 times per minute and has a radial pulse. Which one of the following should you do next?

A) Check the blood pressure.
B) Move the patient to the treatment area.
C) Check the mental status.
D) Place a yellow tag on the patient.


C

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You have responded to a local pool for a drowning patient. Lifeguards have pulled the patient out of the pool prior to your arrival. You find the 16-year-old patient unresponsive with agonal respirations and a weak carotid pulse. What is your first action?

A) Insert a Combitube. B) Insert an oropharyngeal airway. C) Apply high-concentration oxygen by bag-valve mask. D) Apply high-concentration oxygen by nonrebreather mask.

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The identification of sources of drugs from plants and animals

a. Toxicity b. Therapeutics c. Pharmacognosy d. Pharmacology

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Claim scrubbers are used by payers to examine claims before adjudicating them

A) True B) False

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A(n) ______________ is a variant form of a given gene, which may determine a trait such as having type O or type A blood

a. allele b. recessive gene c. stem cell d. dominant gene

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