What are the signs and symptoms of hyperventilation?
What will be an ideal response?
nervousness, increase in rate of respirations, feeling of suffocation, tightness in chest, dizziness, tingling in extremities
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While a 61-year-old female in cardiac arrest receives emergency care, you note that her abdomen grows larger with each ventilation provided from a bag-valve mask. What instructions should you provide?
A) "Try delivering each ventilation over 3 seconds, and let's slow down the rate." B) "The ventilation rate and force of ventilation need to be increased so air goes into the lungs." C) "Let's slow the ventilation rate to 10 per minute, providing each breath over 1 second." D) "I need another rescuer to apply firm pressure over the stomach, while we ventilate this patient."
High blood pressure is considered a disease and should be coded from the hypertension table
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
A female patient informs you that she has already gone through menopause. You would realize that:
A) Her menstrual periods are irregular and she cannot have a baby B) She has stopped outright menstrual periods but can still become pregnant C) She will still have menstrual periods but is incapable of pregnancy D) She has stopped menstrual periods and can no longer become pregnant
The following laboratory results are consistent with which of the following conditions:
Urine PBG/ALA porphyrins porphyrins porphyrins >ALA A. Hereditary coproporphyria B ALA-dehydratase deficient porphyria C. Acute intermittent porphyria D. Porphyria cutanea tarda