Which of the following ventilation techniques will enable you to provide the greatest tidal volume AND allow you to effectively assess lung compliance?
A) One-rescuer bag-valve-mask ventilation
B) One-rescuer mouth-to-mask ventilation
C) One-rescuer demand valve ventilation
D) Two-rescuer demand valve ventilation
Answer: B) One-rescuer mouth-to-mask ventilation
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You have been summoned to a grocery store for a 6-year-old girl who has collapsed. On scene, you find the girl lying unresponsive on the floor. You quickly open the patient's airway and determine that she is not breathing. When you try to ventilate her with the bag-valve mask, you are unable to do so. Repositioning the head and reattempting ventilation is not successful in passing air into the lungs. What would your next action be?
A) Perform a blind finger sweep B) Administer 30 chest compressions C) Ventilate the patient with greater force D) Place an oral airway
What is the total water output of unheated large-volume jet nebulizers?
a. 10 to 16 mg H2O/L b. 16 to 25 mg H2O/L c. 26 to 35 mg H2O/L d. 33 to 55 mg H2O/L
Progress notes are recorded in __________ order in the medical record.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Patients will have the same chart number when
A. they have the same name. B. they are minors. C. they share the same guarantor. D. none of these; chart numbers are unique.