Which One of the Following Statements About the AED and Its

question 32

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements about the AED and its use in the treatment of cardiac arrest is true?

• A) "AEDs have simplified the treatment of cardiac arrest to the point where the EMT does not have to be worried about inappropriately shocking a patient."
• B) "Research has shown that the first shock delivered by an AED is often faster than the first shock delivered by a manual defibrillator."
• C) "To use an AED, the EMT must be able to identify some basic cardiac arrest heart rhythms so that he or she can tell the AED to shock or not shock the patient."
• D) "The AED is advantageous in that it will determine if a patient is in cardiac arrest and whether or not to shock."

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Definitions:

Pyranoses

Ring forms of six-membered sugar molecules that result from intramolecular hemiacetal formation, where the oxygen atom is part of the ring.

Furanoses

Ring forms of monosaccharides (sugars) that contain a five-membered ring typically including an oxygen atom.

Glucose

A basic form of sugar that serves as a crucial source of energy for living beings and a fundamental element of numerous carbohydrates.

Cyclic Hemiacetal

A cyclic organic compound formed from the reaction of an alcohol with an aldehyde or ketone, characterized by a carbon atom bonded to an oxygen (in hydroxy group), another oxygen (in ether group), a hydrogen, and an alkyl or aryl group.