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Airway, Respiration and Ventilation:

1. You are assessing an 84 year old man. Upon auscultation of the lungs you discover crackles or rale sounds. He is complaining of chest pain and congestion. These signs and symptoms can indicate?


2. If someone is having breathing problems as a result of atelectasis...


3. Because Epinephrine can be deactivated by alkaline solutions, it should not be mixed with?


4. A respiration rate would be considered within normal limits for an adult at____ per minute, for a 6-12 year old child at ____ per minute, and for an infant at____ per minute.


5. You are intubating a female patient with assistance from your partner Rudy. After inserting the ET tube and inflating the cuff Rudy auscultates and finds breath sounds in the right lung only. This is a sign for you to?


6. The pediatric assessment triangle is composed of three elements:


7. You and your partner Larry are dispatched for a call to a man with severe stomach pain. When you arrive on scene you find him lying on the floor of the kitchen in the fetal position. There is vomit on his face and he says he is going to throw up again. He denies falling and says the only thing wrong is that his stomach is killing him. Assessing his abdomen you find it to be very tender to the touch and he moans when you palpate his stomach. He is also breathing very fast at 30 a minute. What other signs and symptoms might you find with this patient?


8. Which of the following is false regarding the use of isoproterenol?


9. Not only does Epinephrine stimulate cardiac function, but it also has Beta II properties that cause what?


10. A child between 3-5 would have normal vitals if they were?