You are on the scene of a person down.You arrive at a college dormitory and find a 21-year-old patient lying supine on the floor,unresponsive.The patient is "guppy" breathing at 5 times a minute,has a strong radial pulse at 110 beats per minute,and has vomited on himself.Friends state they went out to dinner and a party.They returned to change clothes for another party and he never came out of his room.Your partner suctions the patient,inserts an oropharyngeal airway,and ventilates the patient with a bag-valve mask with high-concentration oxygen.You listen to lung sounds and there are coarse rhonchi bilaterally.What condition do you suspect?

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Aspiration is the most likely condition because the patient is "guppy" breathing, has vomited on himself, and has coarse rhonchi bilaterally.

You Are on the Scene of a Person Down