[Answered]: Chanda Lear is a middle-aged woman admitted to…

Chanda Lear is a middle-aged woman admitted to the emergency department on the evening shift of a 600-bed inner-city hospital. She apparently was rescued by firefighters from an apartment fire and was brought in by paramedics. You are the respiratory care practitioner assigned to the ER for the evening and arrive just after she does. You observe that she is minimally alert and apparently confused. Her face is covered with smoke residue and her breathing pattern is rapid and shallow. The ER physician asks you to initiate the most appropriate therapy at this time. You would: (select only one) 1930 Hours: 1. Place her on a nonrebreather mask 2. Place her on a nasal cannula at 6 Lpm 3. Place her on a simple mask at 8 Lpm 4.Administer 0.5 mL albuterol in 3 mL normal saline via SVN