An emergency room (ER) staff has been alerted by an ambulance of the imminent arrival of a patient who nearly drowned at a nearby beach. The ER staff should expect that the patient will have inhaled a large amount of seawater, and consequently will need to treat the patient for the effects of highly

A. hypotonic extracellular fluid, including possible cell rupture.
B. hypotonic extracellular fluid, including possible cell dehydration.
C. hypertonic extracellular fluid, including possible cell dehydration.
D. hypertonic intracellular fluid, including possible cell rupture.


Answer: C

Psychology

You might also like to view...

What is one of the limitations of structured interviews?

a. There is no room for clinical judgment. b. They are based only on open-ended questions. c. Information provided by the client can be distorted. d. The interviewer cannot control the course of the interview.

Psychology

_____ is the hypothesis that individuals can recognize emotions expressed by members of their own culture relatively better than of those from a different culture

a) Outgroup advantage b) Ingroup advantage c) Outgroup disadvantage d) Ingroup disadvantage

Psychology

The validity coefficient of an aggression scale is .5 . Using a score on this scale as a predictor of domestic violence, how much of the variability in domestic violence can be attributed to scores on the aggression scale?

a. 25% b. 50% c. none d. indeterminate

Psychology

When children overgeneralize language rules, they create only correct or grammatical sequences

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology