While You Are Caring for a Patient on the Floor

question 72

Multiple Choice

While you are caring for a patient on the floor of her kitchen, she begins to have a generalized seizure. Which of the following is the most appropriate first action?

• A) Move objects away from her and wait to see if the seizure stops.
• B) Insert an oropharyngeal airway.
• C) Restrain her so she does not injure herself.
• D) Start an IV, and administer 5 mg diazepam.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with another stimulus.

Extinction

In the field of psychology, the slow reduction and eventual vanishing of a learned response when the previously associated conditioned stimulus is not presented together with the unconditioned stimulus anymore.

Classical Conditioning

An associative learning framework in which a response initially evoked by a second stimulus becomes elicited by the first stimulus alone due to repeated pairings of the stimuli.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished response after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus.