You are responding to an unresponsive 65-year-old male patient. The patient has snoring respirations, a scalp laceration, and an obvious fracture of the left ankle. What is the best initial course of action?

A) Perform a complete primary and secondary assessment to make sure you know exactly what is wrong before treating the patient.
B) Splint the ankle to avoid lacerating any nerves or arteries.
C) Place an oral airway in the patient.
D) Bandage the scalp wound.


C

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A) Woman with a respiratory rate of 22, palpable radial pulse, and squeezes your fingers when instructed B) Man with a respiratory rate of 40, palpable radial pulse, and squeezes your fingers when instructed C) Woman with agonal respirations, no radial pulse, and unresponsive mental status D) Woman with a respiratory rate of 8, no radial pulse, and unresponsive mental status

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a. 2 b. 5 c. 15 d. 50

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The following questions will require the use of an ICD-9-CM code book to complete the sentence. The vaginal repair of chronic inversion of the uterus is coded to procedure code __________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The first step in processing incoming mail is to ________ it.

A. sort B. open C. record D. annotate E. file

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