Auscultation of the heart requires familiarization with normal and abnormal heart sounds. What does a ventricular gallop indicate in an adult?
A) Heart failure C) Normal functioning
B) Hypertensive heart disease D) Pericarditis
A
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a. The facility's neurologist b. The poison control center c. The physical therapy department d. A herpetologist (snake specialist)
What assessment does the school nurse recognize as the cardinal sign of a hyphema?
a. Opacity of the lens b. A yellow-white reflex on the pupil c. A dark-red spot in front of the iris d. Inflamed mucous membranes of the eyelids
Which structure speeds impulse transmission?
A) Axon B) Dendrite C) Myelin sheath D) Synapse
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors are the drug of choice in treating hypertension in diabetic patients because they:
1. Improve insulin sensitivity 2. Improve renal hemodynamics 3. Reduce the production of angiotensin II 4. All of the above