You have been summoned to an apartment complex for an unknown medical call. At the scene, the police meet you and inform you that the 24-year-old male patient smoked some "bath salts" and is acting erratically. As an EMT, you recognize that bath salts are:
A) Drugs that depress the central nervous system
B) Drugs that increase circulating norepinephrine
C) Drugs made synthetically from bath and shower cleaners
D) Drugs that sedate and slow the respiratory drive when taken in excess
B) Drugs that increase circulating norepinephrine
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A) precipitating B) AV nodal C) supraventricular D) infraventricular
Name the first six sections of the CPT code book
What will be an ideal response?
You have been called for a geriatric patient with advanced dementia. The staff at the geriatric extended care facility believes that the patient has a urinary tract infection. At bedside, you find the patient to be confused and aggressive. She is on constant oxygen at 3 lpm for COPD. During transport, she repeatedly yells at you and strikes out at you. You would respond by
A) Applying a nonrebreather face mask with 3 lpm of oxygen B) Contacting advanced life support for administration of a sedative C) Tightening the straps so that she is tightly restrained to the stretcher D) Moving away from the patient so she cannot strike you
A patient in an upright RPO position, with her body rotated, will have which type of projection through the part?
APO RPO PAO LPO