Describe two main advance directives
living wills allow individuals to state what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life; Designation of Health Care Surrogate or Durable Power of Attorney (POA) for Health Care permits an individual (called a principal) to appoint another person (called an agent) to make health care decisions if the individual is unable to do so
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SCI means
A) Spinal cord injury B) Sickle cell illness C) Symmetrical clonic incident D) Special condition or illness
For conscious infants less than one year old with foreign body airway obstruction, deliver five _______________________________ _______________________________, followed by five _______________________________ _______________________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
What are the physiologic benefits of maintaining alveolar recruitment? I. Recruited alveoli improve ventilation–perfusion matching. II. Transpulmonary pressure decreases. III. The surfactant monolayer does not require repeated reconstruction during ventilation. IV. Pulmonary compliance decreases
A. I, II only B. I, III only C. I, II, III only D. II, III, IV only
Exceptions in the ICD-9-CM manual refer to:
a. changes in the code. b. out of characteristic format. c. coding errors. d. codes to avoid.