The hallmark sign of compartment syndrome is:
A. a lack of pain despite the severity of the injury.
B. extreme redness to the injury site.
C. a bounding pulse distal to the injury.
D. pain out of proportion to the injury.
Answer: D. pain out of proportion to the injury.
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A. The coordinated activity of the organ systems is necessary for normal function. B. Because organ systems are so interrelated, dysfunction in one organ system can have profound effects on other systems. C. An organism is any living thing considered as a whole whether composed of one cell such as a bacteria or trillions of cells such as a human. D. Living things are highly organized and disruption of this organized state can lead to loss of function and death. E. All of these statements are true
Kathryn is pregnant and very eager to breast-feed after the baby is born. Her friend gives her a supplement to encourage prolactin secretion and Kathryn starts to take it during pregnancy. The supplement works and Kathryn's blood level of prolactin increases. She does not begin lactating during pregnancy because
A. maternal plasma levels of prolactin are low during pregnancy. B. the high levels of estrogen and progesterone in maternal plasma inhibit the effects of prolactin. C. the breast ducts do not develop until after parturition. D. the low levels of circulating estrogen and progesterone during pregnancy inhibit milk synthesis by the breasts. E. high levels of androgens inhibit milk synthesis by the breasts.
A decrease in metabolism without a similar, compensatory decrease in alveolar ventilation will have what effect on the systemic pH?
A. No change to pH is expected in this circumstance. B. It is impossible to predict the effect on pH without first understanding why metabolism decreased. C. pH will increase. D. pH will decrease.
Coronal, sagittal, and lambdoid are examples of ________.
A. syndesmoses B. gomphoses C. serrate sutures D. lap sutures E. plane sutures