When Assisting with Oral Intubation of a Patient Who Is

question 31

Multiple Choice

When assisting with oral intubation of a patient who is having respiratory distress,in which order will the nurse take these actions? (Put a comma and a space between each answer choice [A,B,C,D,E].)

• A)Obtain a portable chest-x-ray.
• B)Position the patient in the supine position.
• C)Inflate the cuff of the endotracheal tube after insertion.
• D)Attach an end-tidal CO? detector to the endotracheal tube.
• E)Oxygenate the patient with a bag-valve-mask device for several minutes.

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