One of two things.
First, regarding impaled objects. My class EMT textbook (2016) states that you cover up BOTH eyes during an eye impalement, but notes not all EMS systems use that approach. A app i use online states that you only cover one eye.and i would hate to miss such a silly question over something i cannot find the "best" answer to.
Secondly, it seemed a lot of the test breathing was use a non-re breather (or what i thought anyway.) I'm not sure if the test question is evaluating my ability to recognize giving oxygen or weather or not to use a nasal cannula or nnonrebreather.. If O2 sats are given, would you go with nasal cannula if they were below 94% but above 90% and use a nonrebreather if they had O2 levels lower than 90%? Or based on the patients condition, you disregard the O2 saturation and go with nonrebreather as the question shows it "could maybe" be a heart attack or hypovolemic shock or whatever it may be, which i dont think nasal cannula would be the correct answer, but im unsure.
Another thing is airway and breathiing. I know its the first step, but so many questions say what should you do next and one of them is ventilate the patient or manage their airway. It almost seems as if its a trick question since every scenario basically starts of with airway then breathing ect considering the question is so much farther iin depth that it seems to be pointing to another intervention that should be recognized in the question.
Anyway, thank you in advance to anyone who can answer some of these questions, really appreciate it. Test this week.
First, regarding impaled objects. My class EMT textbook (2016) states that you cover up BOTH eyes during an eye impalement, but notes not all EMS systems use that approach. A app i use online states that you only cover one eye.and i would hate to miss such a silly question over something i cannot find the "best" answer to.
Secondly, it seemed a lot of the test breathing was use a non-re breather (or what i thought anyway.) I'm not sure if the test question is evaluating my ability to recognize giving oxygen or weather or not to use a nasal cannula or nnonrebreather.. If O2 sats are given, would you go with nasal cannula if they were below 94% but above 90% and use a nonrebreather if they had O2 levels lower than 90%? Or based on the patients condition, you disregard the O2 saturation and go with nonrebreather as the question shows it "could maybe" be a heart attack or hypovolemic shock or whatever it may be, which i dont think nasal cannula would be the correct answer, but im unsure.
Another thing is airway and breathiing. I know its the first step, but so many questions say what should you do next and one of them is ventilate the patient or manage their airway. It almost seems as if its a trick question since every scenario basically starts of with airway then breathing ect considering the question is so much farther iin depth that it seems to be pointing to another intervention that should be recognized in the question.
Anyway, thank you in advance to anyone who can answer some of these questions, really appreciate it. Test this week.
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