Emergency Medical Responders Inform You That a 27-Year-Old Male with Altered

question 75

Multiple Choice

Emergency Medical Responders inform you that a 27-year-old male with altered mental status has an open airway and is breathing 9 times every 30 seconds. His pulse rate is 40 beats per minute, and he has bruises to his chest. Based on this information, the EMT should recognize the:

• A) respiratory rate as normal.
• B) heart as beating adequately.
• C) blood pressure as normal.
• D) heart rate as irregular.

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Definitions:

Facial Image

A visual representation of a person's face, often used for identification purposes.

Masking Stimulus

A noise or signal used in sensory experiments to interfere with or "mask" the perception of another stimulus, to study sensory thresholds and attention.

Weber's Law

A principle in psychology that states the smallest change in a stimulus that can be detected is a constant proportion of the original stimulus.

Constant Minimum

The smallest or least value that remains unchanged in a given situation or mathematical function.