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What is minute ventilation
The amount of air pulled into the lungs and removed from the lungs in one minute is called
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What is check for level of responsiveness
The first step in assessing a patient's airway is to ________
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What is 5-6 seconds, 3-5 seconds
For adults you would give a rescue breath every ______ seconds, however for children and infants you would give a rescue breath every _______
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What is encourage him to keep coughing, only resorting to Heimlich when the airway is completely obstructed
You are off-duty eating dinner at a restaurant when someone starts having a gigantic coughing fit. You quickly realize he is coughing and gagging on a piece of steak. What should you do in this situation?
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A pulse oximeter measure the oxygen saturation levels in the blood by using a laser than goes through your finger and is read on the other side of the oximeter.
What is a pulse oximeter and how does it work?
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What is diaphragm and rib cage
The combined actions of the ______ and the _________ automatically produce adequate inhalation and exhalation
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What is 3 to 4 minutes
A completely obstructed airway will cause the patient to lose consciousness in _______
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What is any combination of noisy respirations, wheezing, gurgling, rapid or gasping respirations. Skin may be pale or even blue.
What are some signs and symptoms of inadequate breathing?
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What is remove the oral airway and use another method to maintain the airway
You are at the scene of a frat party where a man went unconscious. His friends began CPR your partner takes over while you begin rescue breaths. You insert an oral airway and he starts choking, so you ___________.
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What is 24% and 44%
Low flow oxygen from a nasal cannula has a concentration of between ___ and ___
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What is smooth muscle
The lungs themselves are comprised of no muscle, however the bronchioles have ______ muscle
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What is nasal airway, oral airway, recovery position, head tilt-chin lift, jaw-thrust
Name all the ways you can use as an EMR to maintain an open airway in a patient
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What is a mouth-to-mask device, a barrier device, a bag-mask device, or just your mouth.
What are all the ways an EMR can administer rescue breathing?
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You will deliver a mixture of back slaps and chest thrusts and once the foreign object is expelled, if the baby remains unresponsive, you will begin CPR.
You are sent to the scene of an infant who is choking. The baby was supposedly coughing on food when the mother called 911, and now the airway has become severely obstructed. How would you proceed to clear the foreign object from the infant?
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If it has less than 500 psi
When should an oxygen cylinder be replaced as its unfit for emergency use?
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The amount of air which enters and exits the lungs
What is tidal volume?
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What is correct a blocked airway by using either the head tilt-chin lift, or jaw-thrust maneuver, check the mouth for any secretions, vomitus, or solid objects, correct a blocked airway if needed by using finger sweeps or suction, maintain the airway by holding it open or using an oral or nasal airway
When opening the airway you will first check for responsiveness, then __________, then __________, etc.
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What is slowed to the point that the patient does not appear to be breathing
In what way is a patient with severe hypothermia's breathing affected?
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What is carbon monoxide poisoning
A patient has passed out in his home and the neighbor has called 911. You restore adequate breathing and the pulse oximeter reads 35%. What do you think is the cause for his unconsciousness?
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What is 8 to 15 liters per minute, 1 to 6 liters per minute
A nonrebreathing mask is used to deliver a high flow of oxygen at _________, whereas a nasal cannula is used to deliver a low flow of _______
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What is capillaries
The actual exchange of gases takes place across a thin membrane that separates the ________ of the circulatory system from the alveoli of the lungs
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What is a rigid suction tip and a flexible whistle-tip catheter
Usually, both a __________ and a __________ can be used with mechanical suction devices
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What is a single rescuer may find it difficult to maintain a seal between the patient's face and the mask with one hand. Additionally, the bag-mask device may be difficult to use if the EMR has small hands
What are the disadvantages to using a bag-mask device?
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What is the jaw-thrust maneuver, bag-mask device, non rebreathing mask, 90% concentration of oxygen
You respond to the scene of a 6 car pile-up, after performing triage and calling for additional resources you go to the care of a patient who is unconscious in their vehicle. You decide to risk the lawsuit and pull them out of the vehicle in order to strap them to a backboard. Your partner performs the _________ maneuver and you proceed to use a ___________ on the patient. Pulse oximeter reads 85% blood oxygen saturation, so you ditch the previous device and use a _________, as you can deliver the patient up to ________.
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What is 2,000 psi, 350 Liters, 625 Liters, 20 minutes
Oxygen cylinders are compressed to _____, and D size cylinders hold ____, E size cylinders hold ________. Each cylinder should last at least ____
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