JB LEARNING AIRWAY TEST PREP EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+

An unresponsive trauma patient has sonorous respirations and blood draining from the corning of his mouth. What should you do? Correct Answer: Perform a jaw-thrust maneuver Which of the following statements regarding physiologic dead space is correct? Correct Answer: Diffuse alveolar collapse increases the size of the physiologic dead space Hemoglobin from which oxygen has been released to the cells is called Correct Answer: Reduced hemoglobin 2 You have intubated a 33-year old woman in cardiac arrest secondary to trauma. While ausciltating her lungs, you note that breath sounds are absent over the right hemithorax. What should you suspect? Correct Answer: Blood or air in the right hemithorax Which of the following statements regarding the concentration of gases is correct? Correct Answer: Nitrogen accounts for approx. 79% of atmospheric air. You are ventilating an intubated patient who has been in cardiac arrest for approximately 20 minutes. Despite the presence of bilaterally equal breath sounds, quantitative capnography persistently reads less than 10 mm Hg. What should you suspect? Correct Answer: The patient is not producing carbon dioxide Which of the following clinical presentations is most indicative of a patent airway? Correct Answer: Diaphoresis; tachycardia; gagging 3 You are attempting to ventilate a patient with a bag mask device and do not see the chest rise, what should you do?