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This document contains a chapter with various questions on emergency care for radiology and medical imaging professionals. It outlines potential scenarios and the correct course of action.

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1. **Providing care in an emergency situation is intended to** 2. **The single most important action for the radiographer when administering emergency care is** 3. **A common name for an emergency cart within medical imaging is the** 4. **The medical term for a temporary suspension of consciousness...

1. **Providing care in an emergency situation is intended to** 2. **The single most important action for the radiographer when administering emergency care is** 3. **A common name for an emergency cart within medical imaging is the** 4. **The medical term for a temporary suspension of consciousness is** 5. **What type of shock is caused by a failure of the heart to pump enough blood to the vital organs including the brain?** 6. **A 16-year-old patient comes to the diagnostic imaging department for a CT examination. He is lying on the table in a supine position and suddenly seems to lose consciousness and begins to move violently with jerking motions. You realize that he is having a generalized seizure. The action that you must take is** 7. **The type of shock that is a result of severe loss of blood is** 8. **Symptoms of a head injury include** 9. **What type of shock can result from a severe reaction to the contrast media used in radiographic examinations?** 10. **Which of the following is most appropriate for a patient to counteract hypoglycemia?** 11. **After the administration of an iodine-based contrast into a patient it is important for the technologist to observe the patient for** 12. **In preparation for any emergent situation, the professional technologist should become familiar with** 13. **What type of shock is caused by loss of blood from a knife or gunshot wound?** 14. **When comparing a semi-automatic AED device with an automatic device** 15. **When comparing hyperglycemia with hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia** 16. **What is the first thing you should do if a patient who is standing turns pale and says he feels dizzy?** 17. **When caring for a patient with epistaxis, the patient** 18. **An effective method to handle a patient with an asthmatic attack during a radiographic procedure would be to** 19. **As you are radiographing a patient from the emergency department who has a knife wound to the upper extremity, you notice that his wound dressing is becoming saturated with blood quickly and he is getting lightheaded. You should** 20. **When working with burn patients, it is critically important to** 21. **You have come upon a motor vehicle accident as the first person to arrive. As you assess the victim’s level of consciousness, you begin to ask questions and encourage the victim to respond. During your efforts to do so, the victim has no verbal response to any stimuli but his leg moves with your touch and pinch. This person demonstrates what level of consciousness?** 22. **All of the following are related except** 23. **When performing CPR as a single rescuer** 24. **CPR can be stopped when** 25. **When performing two-person CPR** 26. **CPR performed on an infant** 27. **The Heimlich maneuver is** 28. **When using an AED** 29. **When performing CPR on a patient who is lying supine in a patient bed with a soft mattress, you would first look for what item from the emergency crash cart?** 30. **A disorganized cardiac rhythm in which the ventricle “flutters” and loses cardiac output is called** 31. **It is acceptable to discontinue CPR on a person when**

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