You respond to a nursing home for an ill patient. Upon your arrival, the staff tells you that over the past few days the patient's urine output has been steadily declining. Today, the patient has voided only approximately 400 mL. You suspect:
A) chronic renal failure.
B) acute renal failure.
C) renal calculi.
D) pyelonephritis.
B
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A. search line B. PASS device C. portable radio D. supplied-air respirator
If hepatic and renal functions are decreased, the half-life of a drug is prolonged, which may result in:
A) potentiation B) increased sedative effects C) drug toxicity D) drug ineffectiveness
Ms. Rhit is a coding specialist at the Valley Endocrinology group practice. She is reviewing the following codes that have been selected for the diagnoses listed. For the following questions, if the code given is correct, record correct for your answer. If the code given is incorrect, supply the correct code. Select the appropriate ICD-9-CM code(s) using an ICD-9-CM code book
Pompe's disease, 271.0
Which of the following best describes when a safety hood is mandatory in laboratory use?
a. Performing a culture with a potential of aerosol b. Examining a stool specimen c. Working with a foul-smelling specimen d. Performing an anaerobic culture