Chemicals that cause a disruption in the metabolism of oxygen by the cell like cyanide are called:

A) pulmonary agents.
B) hypoxemic agents.
C) ataxic agents.
D) blood agents.


D

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Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) respond to a female patient who was found by her husband in their second-floor bedroom. When the responders arrived, she was lying on her bed, with a tourniquet on her arm. They also found a syringe, with unknown contents, lying on the floor next to the bed. Her husband denies that she abuses any drugs. The EMRs have removed the tourniquet and inserted a nasopharyngeal airway, and they are providing positive pressure ventilations at the rate of 10 breaths/min with a bag-valve-mask device and supplemental oxygen. You note the woman to be unresponsive, with a pulse rate of 52, and apneic. What would your initial proper care include?

A) Seek an order to administer naloxone B) Apply the AED C) Extricate the patient from the bedroom D) Immediately move the patient to a firm surface

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____, a degenerative brain disease that leads to dementia, is a genetic condition passed on from one generation to the next.

A. Schizophrenia B. Bupolar disorder C. PTSD D. Huntington's chorea

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____ bind to antigens on cells and attack them directly. 

A. T cells B. Cytokines C. B cells D. Natural killer (NK) cells

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Painful sexual intercourse is known as

amenorrhea dysmenorrhea endometriosis dyspareunia cervicitis

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