Your patient is not alert but is responsive to painful stimulus. His airway is patent. He is breathing at eight times per minute. Your next action should be to administer oxygen via a:

Sterile personnel must pass other sterile personnel ________

A. front to front or back to back C. left side to left side B. right side to right side D. right side to left side

The most common cause of acute alveolar hyperventilation is:

a. hypoxemia. b. metabolic alkalosis. c. tachycardia. d. supplemental oxygen administration.