A 77-year-old female is unresponsive, but breathing and with a pulse. On scene, a family member hands you an official document stating that the patient does not want feeding tubes, ventilators, or other long-term life support equipment to keep her alive. There is no mention of whether to administer lifesaving drugs or withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The EMT would recognize this document as a(n):
A) Durable power of attorney
B) Living will document
C) "Do Not Resuscitate" (DNR) order
D) "Involuntary Resuscitation" order
B) Living will document
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________ is often caused by prolonged inactivity, such as sitting during a long period of travel in an airplane or automobile, trauma, or lengthy bed rest following surgery
a. Thrombophilia b. Thrombophlebitis c. Thrombocytopenia d. Thrombopoiesis
A small car and tanker truck loaded with gasoline have collided. The car is lodged under the tanker, from which gasoline is leaking from a ruptured valve. The car engine is smoking and the threat of fire and explosion is great. Assessment reveals your patient to be unresponsive with a patent airway, but breathing with difficulty at 8 times a minute. In caring for this patient, your immediate
action should be to: A) promptly open the airway and suction prior to moving the patient. B) rapidly extricate the patient and provide care away from the wreckage. C) quickly obtain vital signs and then extricate the patient from the car. D) immediately start positive pressure ventilation and place a vest immobilization device for extrication.
Which of these is not associated with essential tremor?
A) head movements in a yes-yes motion B) head movement in a no-no motion C) hands shaking when trying to make movements D) hands shaking when at rest
Following ________ means assuming that all blood and body fluids are infected with bloodborne pathogens.
What will be an ideal response?