FISDAP Airway Practice; Questions and Answers 100% Correct
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FISDAP Airway Practice; Questions and Answers 100%
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Your first step in the care of this patient is to"
A. begin chest compressions
B. apply the AED
C. maintain an open airway
D. assess level of consciousness C. maintain an open airway
Tidal volume is best defined as the:
A. volu...
FISDAP Airway Practice; Questions and Answers 100%
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Your first step in the care of this patient is to"
A. begin chest compressions
B. apply the AED
C. maintain an open airway
D. assess level of consciousness ✔✔C. maintain an open airway
Tidal volume is best defined as the:
A. volume of air inhaled on a single breath
B. volume of air that remains in the upper airway
C. total volume of air that the lungs are capable of holding
D. volume of air moved in and out of the lungs each minute ✔✔A. volume of air inhaled on a
single breath
You are called to assist s SCUBA diver who is having trouble breathing. The patient states that it
started approximately 15 minutes after she surfaced. She complains of chest pain, dizziness,
blurred vision and nausea and vomiting. The patient is most likely suffering from:
A. pneumothorax
B. decompression sickness
C. barotrauma
D. an air embolism ✔✔D. an air embolism
(Any of these could be associated with dive incidents but these signs and symptoms are
indicative of an air embolism. Divers who suffer from decompression sickness, or the bends,
, FISDAP Airway Practice; Questions and Answers 100%
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typically do not develop signs and symptoms of the bends for 12 to 24 hours after their dive.
Barotrauma usually occurs as the diver is ascending or descending.)
You are suctioning your patient's airway. One of the biggest side effects of suctioning is:
A. hypoxia
B. aspiration
C. suction power
D. suction catheter clogging ✔✔A. hypoxia
EMTs should wear high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) respirators when they are in contact
with patients who would have which of the following?
A. HIV
B. TB
C. open wounds
D. hepatitis B ✔✔B. TB
You are called to assist a 60-year-old female who consists of a severe headache. Upon entering
the home, you smell a strong odor of natural gas. What is your first action?
A. check the patient's airway, breathing and circulation
B. insert a nasopharyngeal airway and assess vital signs
C. remove the patient from the house to your ambulance
D. open all the windows and determine the source of the gas leak ✔✔C. remove the patient
from
the house to your ambulance
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