Question 8 - Airway, Respiration, and Ventilation Practice Test for the EMT Test

You are on scene with a 44-year-old female who is complaining of feeling anxious and states, “I can’t breathe.” You should do the following:

Place a non-rebreather mask and turn the flow to 6 LPM.
Immediately start manually ventilating since she said she can’t breathe.
Perform an abdominal thrust; she may be choking.
Assess her respiratory rate and rhythm, check her oxygen saturation, and listen to her lungs.

Hint

Be sure to consider describing words like first (second, third, etc.), number one (two, three, etc.), top, prior to, priority, prioritize, increase, next, then, last, before, between, initial(ly), immediate(ly), direct(ly), final, earliest, latest, ultimately, original(ly), and after in questions. They indicate that there is one particular correct answer, even if the other answer choices may be related to the question.

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