When should the EMT use the pulse oximeter?
A) Only on patients who complain of shortness of breath
B) On any and all patients 1 year of age and older
C) Only if the patient has a history of lung disease
D) Routinely on all patients with a medical or trauma complaint
D) Routinely on all patients with a medical or trauma complaint
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You are dispatched to an unconscious hemodialysis patient. On arrival to the dialysis clinic, the patient is unresponsive, apneic, and pulseless. You secure the ABCs, begin ventilation, and initiate chest compressions. However, the patient's cardiac arrest rhythm is continuously unresponsive to defibrillations with your AED. The best approach is to:
A) begin transporting and contact an ALS intercept. The patient's dysrhythmia may be related to kidney failure. B) continue defibrillating as the monitor recommends. The myocardium becomes increasingly responsive to successive defibrillations. C) call online medical control to terminate the code. The probability of survival is too low to continue resuscitation efforts. D) run a "no-electricity" code in which compressions and ventilation are continued. No additional defibrillations are necessary.
When is the most appropriate time to use an alcohol-based hand rub?
only if used after another hand washing agent only if a sink is available only if used before using another hand washing agent only when there is no visible soil on the hands