Your patient's clinical status abruptly changed and the alarms on the ventilator are sounding. What is/are the first step(s) you should take?

a. Silence the alarms and adjust the alarm parameters.
b. Perform a rapid physical examination.
c. Remove the patient from the ventilator and manually ventilate.
d. Check the patency of the airway.


ANS: C

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