A 5-year-old boy has been vomiting profusely for two days. Your assessment indicates that his airway is open, respirations adequate, and radial pulse fast and weak. His skin is cool and capillary refill time is 5 seconds. The EMT should understand that the patient is:
A) hypoxic.
B) malnourished.
C) poorly perfused.
D) feverous.
C
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A)Script pads B)Sig directions and codes C)Compound screens D)Types of syringes
You respond to a motor vehicle collision and find a patient with an altered mental status and angulated left femur; the other driver is deceased. Your closest trauma center is 45 minutes away. Which of the following would you do next?
A) Apply a traction splint. B) Transport the patient to a local medical clinic for evaluation by a physician. C) Request ALS personnel. D) Perform a detailed physical exam.
A 6-year-old male has a decreased level of consciousness. His mother states that they do not have health insurance so they did not take him to the hospital last week when he started vomiting and had copious amounts of diarrhea. She continues by stating that he has not had anything to eat or drink since then. He has snoring respirations that are rapid and inadequate. His radial pulse cannot be
located, and his carotid pulse is rapid and weak. His capillary refill is 5 seconds and his skin is cool to the touch. Your first intervention in caring for this child would be: A) taking manual in-line spinal immobilization. B) opening the airway using the head-tilt, chin-lift. C) providing positive pressure ventilation. D) attaching the automated external defibrillator.
How HSCs differ from committed progenitor cells in that HSC has:
a. Ability to self-renew b. Success in autologous transplantation c. Potency in the immune response d. Location of maturation