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NREMT Advanced EMT

Category - Airway and Respiration

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Your patient is very sick and is coughing up blood from the respiratory tree. What type of bleeding is this?

Orthopnea
Hematemesis
Hemoptysis
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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