What is true of a myocardial infarction?
a. Nitroglycerin is an effective treatment for a myocardial infarction.
b. The pain associated with a myocardial infarction often occurs when the patient is active.
c. An angina episode always precedes a myocardial infarction.
d. A common cause of a myocardial infarction is atherosclerosis.
d. A common cause of a myocardial infarction is atherosclerosis.
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A) Convection B) Hydrodynamic cooling C) Condensation D) Exposure
Your patient is a 14-year-old male who crashed his bicycle, landing prone and sliding along a gravel trail. He has deep abrasions to his hands, arms, chest, and knees. The patient has small pieces of gravel, twigs, and dirt embedded in the abrasions. Which of the following is the best way to manage this situation after taking cervical spine immobilization?
A) Use your fingers to pick embedded debris from the wound, bandage with moist saline dressings in place, and transport. B) Assess for additional injuries, flush away large pieces of debris with a sterile dressing, place dressings on the abrasions, bandage them in place, and transport. C) Do not attempt to remove any debris, apply pressure dressings over the embedded material if necessary, apply high-concentration oxygen, and transport. D) Use a tongue depressor to scrape large pieces of debris out of the wounds, place the patient on high-concentration oxygen, and transport.
____ form on the water when water piles up against a submerged object, making the water appear to be a raised area.
A. Strainers B. Eddys C. Pillows D. Rips
Subendocardial MI is an old term for
A) transmural MI. B) STEMI. C) inferior MI. D) NSTEMI.