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Advanced EMS providers can most easily correct which of the following endocrine emergencies?

You are treating an unresponsive patient who has dry, warm skin, rapid and shallow respirations, a rapid, weakpulse, a blood glucose level of 500 mg/dl, and a blood pressure of 70/40. Which of the following should youMOST likely suspect?

Your normotensive, 21-year-old is complaining of a fever, malaise, rectal discharge, and extreme pain whiledefecating. Which of the listed conditions would you base your treatment plan on?

You are providing care for a patient whom you discover, during your primary (initial) assessment, is vomitingcopious amounts of bright red blood. Which of the following should be your HIGHEST concern?

You have responded to a 25-year-old male patient who has sustained a knife wound to the right side of the chest. He is struggling to breath. BP 76/42, P 132, R 26, SPO2 89%. Patient has clear equal breath sounds. He is found to have structural and never damage within the mediastinal chest. What is likely to be elevated in this patient?

Your patient has been in bed all day following a three-day history of intractable vomiting and diarrhea. Thepatient just returned from a business trip to a developing country. Assessment reveals a patient that is responsiveto verbal stimuli, has sunken eyeballs, warm, dry skin, a shallow respiratory rate of 22, a heart rate of 128 withweak peripheral pulses, and BP is 92/64. Your treatment includes:

What is the treatment for any altered mental status patient with a blood glucose measured at 50mg/dL evenbefore the patient’s medical history is known?

You are called to a local assisted living center for an elderly patient with diabetes and an altered level ofconsciousness. You are unable to assess a blood glucose level. Select the MOST appropriate reason for givinginstant glucose?

You are called to treat a 56-year-old with a history of peptic ulcers. The patient is unresponsive, pale, cool,clammy, tachycardic, tachypnic, hypotensive, and vomiting copious amounts of blood. Which of the following isyour MOST important immediate intervention?

You arrive at a school to treat a child with a sports injury. The sixteen-year-old-was playing basketball andwas hit in the nose. The child’s nose is bleeding heavily and the coach is holding an ice bag under the nose. Youtake over treatment and identify the correct treatment would be to: