You are an adult respiratory therapist working in the emerge…
You are an adult respiratory therapist working in the emergency department. You have been told to come to shock room #1 to assess a patient in respiratory distress. The patient is showing signs and symptoms of shortness of breath, has difficulty speaking, and is coughing up frothy/pink secretions. Based on this description, what do you assume the patient has?
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You are a pediatric respiratory therapist working the floors and performing chest physical therapy on a patient. After the exercise, you ask the patient to cough any sputum that they can to clear their airways. After a few seconds, the patient is able to expectorate green, foul smelling sputum. The patient’s sputum indicates that the patient has what issue?
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Suppose you are driving home from school and suddenly realize that you have not noticed anything you have driven past for the last few minutes. This experience of driving without paying attention to your route is an example of ________ processing.
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