NREMT Advanced EMT

Category - Airway and Respiration

Your patient is very sick and is coughing up blood from the respiratory tree. What type of bleeding is this?
  1. Orthopnea
  2. Hematemesis
  3. Hemoptysis
  4. Pulsus paradoxus
Explanation
Answer - C - Coughing up blood from the respiratory tree is Hemoptysis. Hemoptysis can be caused by tumors, pulmonary emboli, and many forms of blunt or penetrating chest trauma.
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