Your Paramedic Partner Has Applied Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)

question 104

Multiple Choice

Your paramedic partner has applied continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to a patient in respiratory distress from congestive heart failure (CHF) . As an EMT, you realize that this should benefit the patient by:

• A) reinflating portions of the lung that have collapsed.
• B) causing the diaphragm to relax during inspiration.
• C) removing air from the lungs during exhalation.
• D) forcing fluid in the lungs back into the bloodstream.

Identify common causes of conflict in organizations.

Recognize the expression and types of conflict (e.g., felt, perceived, manifest).

Understand the role of authoritative command in conflict resolution.

Identify behavioral foundations necessary for integrative agreements in negotiations.

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Definitions:

DSM

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a handbook used by healthcare professionals as the authoritative guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders.

Depression

A mental disorder characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest in activities, and the inability to experience pleasure, affecting one's thoughts, behavior, feelings, and sense of well-being.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Voice Hallucinations

Auditory hallucinations where an individual hears voices that are not present or generated by an external source.