You have arrived on the scene at a high school football field where a 17-year-old male is lying on the ground. He is unresponsive and cyanotic, and he is making obvious respiratory effort without moving adequate amounts of air. Which of the following should be done first?
A) Assist ventilations with a bag-valve-mask device and supplemental oxygen.
B) Open the patient's airway using a manual maneuver.
C) Insert a nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal airway.
D) Apply high-concentration oxygen by nonrebreather mask.
B
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A) 5 gtts/min B) 11 gtts/min C) 13 gtts/min D) 3 gtts/min
You have been called for an eight-year-old girl who is having seizures. The mother tells you that the child has not been sick, no fever or vomiting. However, she does have a shunt. You should suspect her seizures are caused by:
A) a seizure disorder. B) increased intracranial pressure. C) a recent head injury. D) an acute increase in temperature.
Which of the following procedures is associated with treatment of glaucoma?
a. lenscectomy b. trabeculectomy
What type of insurance is available for medical assistants and is especially important for a medical assistant when the physician employer or health care facility employer does not carry such for the assistant
a. Life b. Health c. Malpractice d. Patient