As a paramedic, your role in trauma care consists of all of the following, EXCEPT:
A) providing rapid transport to appropriate facilities.
B) promoting injury prevention.
C) providing care to seriously injured trauma patients.
D) providing surgical interventions to stop hemorrhage.
D
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When arriving at the location of a motor vehicle collision on an interstate highway, you should position the ambulance so that:
A) there is a fire truck between you and oncoming traffic. B) there is a safe area beyond the damaged vehicles. C) you are nearest to the command post for easy communications with the incident commander. D) there is a safe area between the damaged vehicles and traffic behind the scene.
An adult man on ventilatory support has just been intubated with a 7-mm oral endotracheal tube equipped with a high-residual-volume, low-pressure cuff
When sealing the cuff to achieve a minimal occluding volume, you note a cuff pressure of 45 cm H2O. What is most likely the problem? a. The tube chosen is too small for the pa-tient. b. The cuff pilot balloon and line are ob-structed. c. The tube is in the right main stem bron-chus. d. The cuff has herniated over the tube tip.