For which of the following patients should the EMT carefully continue to monitor the patient's ventilatory status throughout treatment and transport due to the greatest risk of respiratory failure?
A) 28-year-old male who spilled a strong industrial acid on his legs
B) 16-year-old male whose shirt caught on fire, resulting in circumferential burns of his chest
C) 34-year-old male who opened the radiator of his car and had hot fluid spray on his chest, resulting in redness and pain in an area about the size of the patient's hand
D) 17-year-old male with a blistering sunburn on his face
B
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A physician orders supplemental O2 for a patient through a nasal cannula at a flow of 12 L/min. When you ask what the goal is, the physician states that the patient should receive approximately 60% O2. Which of the following should you recommend?
a. The O2 should be given through a reservoir mask at 10 L/min. b. The cannula flow should be set to 15 in-stead of 12 L/min. c. The O2 should be given through a simple mask set at 5 to 12 L/min. d. The O2 should be given through a simple mask set at 12 to 15 L/min.
A patient with quadriplegia most likely experienced an injury to his:
A) Brain B) Thoracic spine C) Arms and legs D) Cervical spine