You are called to a rural hospital to transfer a patient to another facility. Your 68-year-old patient presents with a complaint of shortness of breath. The diagnosis is congestive heart failure with acute pulmonary edema. Which of the following breath sounds would you expect to hear?

Which of the following statements regarding ventricular fibrillation (V-fib) is MOST correct?

A. It is an uncommon dysrhythmia in patients with sudden cardiac arrest. B. AEDs should not be used to defibrillate patients in V-fib. C. The only indication for immediate defibrillation is V-fib. D. Survival rates decrease by 7% to 10% for each minute that V-fib persists.

After age 70, blood flow to the kidneys may decrease by as much as:

A) 10% B) 25% C) 35% D) 40%