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| Without adequate airway maintenance and ventilation, the patient can succumb to brain injury or death in how many minutes? |
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| Manual manuevers used to open a patients airway are very effective and ________. |
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| Often neglected in the prehospital setting. |
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| Moderate hypoxia is indicated with a pulse oximeter reading of? |
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| When using the end-tidal carbo dioxide detector as a tool to determine if endotracheal intubation has been correctly obtained, the absence of carbon dioxide in exhaled air indicates the ET tube has been? |
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| The hypoxic drive is regulated by? |
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| An oxygen deficincy is called? |
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| A fine bubbling sound heard on inspiration and associated with fluid in the smaller bronchioles is called? |
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| An abnormality of breathing rate, depth,or effort is known as? |
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| Progressively deeper, faster breathing alternating gradually with shallow, slower breathing is called? |
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| Cheyn-Stokes respirations |
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| The major draw back to mouth-to-mouth ventilation is? |
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| Potiental exposure to a communicable disease. |
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| A drop of blood pressure of greater than 10 torr during inspiration is called? |
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