A patient who is short of breath and has a history of right arm paralysis from a stroke has asked you to help him use his metered-dose inhaler containing albuterol. Since your medical director requires on-line authorization for albuterol, you would:
A) Contact medical direction for authorization
B) Withhold the medication and transport the patient
C) Advise the hospital that the patient will need albuterol
D) Administer the medication and document this treatment accordingly
A) Contact medical direction for authorization
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A. Sport governing bodies are unprepared to investigate themselves. B. Self-policing strategies create inherent conflicts of interest in sports. C. A lack of transparency and accountability in sport organizations. D. Sport leaders are so diverse that they cannot agree on social control strategies.
A blow to the athlete's eye can partially or completely separate the retina from its underlying attachment, causing an immediate painful condition and a lack of vision in that eye.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
You are called to the scene of a patient who was burned in an electrical mishap. Upon arrival you find the patient lying beside some wiring that he was working on. What should be your first consideration?
A. The wires may still be live. B. The patient will have airway burns. C. The patient should be flown to the closest burn center. D. The patient will probably be in ventricular fibrillation.
Which of the following was the view of David Hume on death?
A. He argued that suicide, "is no transgression of our duty to God." B. He stated that the life of a man is more important to the universe than the life of any other creature. C. He asserted that voluntary death is a sin for dying patients. D. He claimed that the life of a man and that of an oyster are of no importance in the universe. E. He believed that diseases do not belong to a world that is made through the laws of causality.