For which of the following patients should the EMT carefully continue to monitor the patient's ventilatory status throughout treatment and transport due to the greatest risk of respiratory failure?
A) 28-year-old male who spilled a strong industrial acid on his legs
B) 16-year-old male whose shirt caught on fire, resulting in circumferential burns of his chest
C) 34-year-old male who opened the radiator of his car and had hot fluid spray on his chest, resulting in redness and pain in an area about the size of the patient's hand
D) 17-year-old male with a blistering sunburn on his face
B
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Your patient is a 45-year-old man with extensive blunt trauma to the face. He has decorticate posturing in response to pain; weak, irregular respiratory effort at 6 per minute; and a heart rate of 50 with a good radial pulse. The patient appears to have nasal and mandibular fractures, and an oropharyngeal airway is insufficient to keep the tongue from the posterior pharynx. Which of the following
has the most potential to negatively impact the patient? A) Retrograde intubation B) Oral intubation under direct laryngoscopy C) Nasotracheal intubation D) A non-visualized dual-lumen airway
Which of the following factors is a primary reason that firefighters should not create tactical ventilation openings in an uncoordinated manner?
A. Can spread fire to uninvolved areas B. May damage roof of structure by creating openings C. Can cause fire streams to have negative affect on fire D. Creating openings does unnecessary damage to the structure
Which of these conditions or diseases is caused by a virus?
A. Vaginitis B. Lice C. Lyme disease D. Genital herpes
Which of the following is an effect of PEEP and increased intra-abdominal pressure?
A. decreased atelectasis B. decreased functional residual capacity C. increased compliance of ventricles D. increased cardiac output