You locate a 55-year-old woman lying supine on the side of a road. There are no bystanders. You determine that the patient is unresponsive. Which of the following should be your next action?
A) Apply a cervical collar.
B) Provide high-flow oxygen.
C) Open the airway with a jaw-thrust maneuver.
D) Intubate the trachea.
C
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a. flexion b. extension c. pronation
What is the best way to confirm that an asthmatic outpatient can properly self-manage a newly prescribed aerosol drug therapy?
a. Have the patient describe the proper pro-cedural steps. b. Have the patient provide a repeat or return demonstration. c. Have the patient take a written or oral quiz on technique. d. Have the patient maintain detailed treat-ment logs.
Iatrogenic disease only involves infections.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
A local health care facility reports that their costs have risen since they initiated the transition from paper to electronic patient information. HIPAA's administrative simplification effort was predicted to have an effect of decreasing costs. What would you infer from this information?
What will be an ideal response?