What term is used to describe an electronic device that patients wear to notify a call center for assistance?

A 22-year-old with asthma comes to the emergency department in respiratory distress

The patient has acute shortness of breath (SOB); is febrile, tachypneic, and tachycardic; and has an SpO2 of 88% on a nasal cannula that delivers 2 L/min. Which of the following actions should the respiratory therapist take at this time? a. Teach the patient to breathe through pursed lips. b. Place a simple mask on the patient. c. Remove the cannula and place a 0.35 air-entrainment mask on the patient. d. Place a high-flow cannula at 15 L/min on the patient.

"Elevating the head and extending the neck" describes which of the following?

a. The position for transtracheal invasive airway insertion b. The position for a nasopharyngeal airway insertion c. A maneuver called the jaw thrust or chin lift d. A maneuver called the sniffing position