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Emergency Care, Infection Control and Medical Ethics

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  1. According to American Heart Association (AHA) BLS guidelines, what is the recommended chest compression rate for adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)?
  2. What is the single most effective healthcare practice for preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)?
  3. What type of transmission-based precautions are mandatory for an adult patient hospitalized with confirmed open pulmonary Tuberculosis?
  4. What ethical principle asserts the patient's right to self-determination and informed consent in medical decision-making?
  5. In mass casualty triage (START protocol), how should an adult victim who cannot walk and is breathing at 24 breaths/min with a palpable radial pulse and follows simple commands be categorized?
  6. Immediately following an accidental needlestick injury with a hollow-bore needle from an unknown source patient, the healthcare worker should first:
  7. What is the recommended compression-to-ventilation ratio for single-rescuer adult CPR without an advanced airway?
  8. What does the biomedical ethical principle of 'Non-maleficence' require of clinicians?
  9. Which arterial pulse should be palpated to assess circulation in an unresponsive adult victim prior to initiating CPR?
  10. Under clinical confidentiality rules, in which scenario is a physician legally authorized to disclose patient information without explicit consent?
  11. What is the primary action when an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) announces: "Analyzing heart rhythm, do not touch the patient"?
  12. Which disinfectant technique is required for reusable surgical instruments that penetrate sterile human tissue or vascular spaces?
  13. A competent adult Jehovah's Witness with massive postpartum bleeding refuses a blood transfusion, and her husband urges the team to give blood anyway. What is the best nursing action?
  14. A patient has diarrhoea and a positive Clostridioides difficile toxin test. Which infection-control approach is correct?
  15. An adult of about 70 kg develops wheeze, facial swelling and hypotension two minutes after an IV antibiotic starts. After stopping the infusion, which first-line drug and route should the nurse prepar…
  16. A monitored patient in ventricular fibrillation receives one defibrillation shock. What should the team do immediately next?

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