You are on scene with a female patient with chest pain. After the ambulance arrives on scene about 5 minutes after you do, the paramedic on the ambulance, Joyce, recognizes you from EMR class as she is one of the part-time instructors. She knows you just finished your course and offers you the opportunity to ride along to the hospital with the patient. Dave agrees it would be good experience for you, so you go along. Joyce introduces herself and crew to the patient and asks the patient’s name. She says she is Martha Chatterton. Sally asks, “Ms. Chatterton, why did you call 911 today?’ She says she had chest pain and was out of her nitroglycerin. The patient states that she is sorry to have callod 911 just for that. Joyce reassures the patient she did the right thing by calling EMS. Ms. Chatterton agrees to go to the hospital for an evaluation. You ask Joyce if you should change the oxygen over to the on-board unit and swith to a nonrebreather. Joyce replies “No, let’s remove the oxygen since her
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