ASHI Emergency Oxygen
What is the source of oxygen that allows the human body to survive? - ✔✔The air we
breathe
What should always be a provider's initial approach to a medical emergency? -
✔✔Basic priority care, su
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ASHI Emergency Oxygen
What is the source of oxygen that allows the human body to survive? - ✔✔The air we
breathe
What should always be a provider's initial approach to a medical emergency? -
✔✔Basic priority care, such as maintaining an airway and ensuring adequate breathing
The use of emergency oxygen - ✔✔Can help meet an ill or injured person's need for
oxygen
Which of the following is a priority of care that needs to be done prior to providing
emergency oxygen? - ✔✔Making sure the scene is safe for you to provide care
Working as a lifeguard, you have responded to a collapsed teenager on the pool deck.
The teen is unresponsive and does not appear to be breathing. You have a ventilation
mask, but the emergency oxygen delivery system is on the far wall of the facility. What
do you want to do? - ✔✔Send another lifeguard or bystander to get the oxygen system
while you provide priority care.
Which best describes the integration of emergency oxygen into care that is already
being provided? - ✔✔Stop the care to integrate emergency oxygen.
Smoothly integrate into the existing care. - ✔✔...
Which of the following is not a major factor that affects the ability to provide emergency
oxygen? - ✔✔The age of the ill or injured person
What does the U.S. Food and Drug Administration consider to be the minimum delivery
requirements for an emergency oxygen delivery system? - ✔✔A flow rate of 6 liters of
oxygen per minute for at least 15 minutes
What are the four primary components of an emergency oxygen delivery system? -
✔✔02 Cylinder, Tubing, Regulator, Delivery Device
Which of the following emergency oxygen delivery devices is not recommended for use
on a person who is adequately breathing? - ✔✔Bag-mask
What is the purpose of the reservoir bag on the nonrebreather mask? - ✔✔To increase
the concentration of inhaled oxygen
Which of the following is not true about delivery devices that provide emergency oxygen
to a breathing person - ✔✔They use pressure to force oxygen through the mouth and
airway, and into the lungs
Which of the following emergency oxygen delivery devices is not recommended for use
on a patient who is not breathing? - ✔✔Nonrebreather mask
Pulse oximetry equipment also measures ______ . - ✔✔Pulse rate
You are responding to a male co-worker in the warehouse with an unknown medical
problem. Which of the following statements is true? - ✔✔Perform a primary assessment
as you normally would and check pulse oximetry if available.
Limitations of pulse oximetry include - ✔✔Carbon monoxide poisoning victims may have
a higher reading than their actual oxygen saturation
You respond, as a trained emergency oxygen provider, to a coworker who is
complaining of having shortness of breath. Before placing an oxygen mask on the face
of the person, you should - ✔✔Listen to the mask and confirm the flow of oxygen.
If a person you are caring for with emergency oxygen stops breathing - ✔✔Begin CPR
with chest compressions
Delivery devices that provide emergency oxygen to non-breathing persons - ✔✔Use
pressure to force oxygen through the mouth and airway, and into the lungs.
As a trained emergency oxygen provider, you respond with an emergency oxygen
system to a situation in which CPR is already in progress. How do you want to get
emergency oxygen into the treatment process? - ✔✔Smoothly, without interrupting
priority care
What changes are made to ventilation technique when emergency oxygen is added to
the care being provided for a non-breathing person? - ✔✔There are no changes made
to ventilations when adding emergency oxygen.
What changes are made to ventilation technique when emergency oxygen is added to
the care being provided for a non-breathing person? - ✔✔There are no changes made
to ventilations when adding emergency oxygen
Before removing a regulator or storing an oxygen delivery system, users must remove
pressure within the regulator by - ✔✔Closing the cylinder valve, opening the flow
controller, and listening for the flow of oxygen to stop
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