A 52-year-old male patient with a brain tumor has gone into respiratory arrest, but still has a pulse and obtainable blood pressure. You assign the task of artificially ventilating the patient with the bag-valve mask to a new Emergency Medical Responder. How will you instruct him to ventilate the patient?
A) Deliver 10 breaths per minute
B) Give the patient 20 breaths per minute
C) Administer 8 breaths per minute
D) Give the patient 24 breaths per minute
A) Deliver 10 breaths per minute
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California held that:
A) A psychotherapist had a duty to warn a person that his patient was making threats to harm a third person. B) The hospital had a duty to require that patients be examined by members of the hospital staff who were skilled in the treatment required. C) The hospital did not apply its own credentialing rules and, therefore, did not follow its own standard of care in determining the qualifications of physicians practicing at the facility. D) When a physician withdraws from the contractual relationship with a patient, he must provide the patient with reasonable notice to obtain a new physician or alternative treatment.