A patient is complaining of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Which of the following will provide you with the most immediately useful information?
A) Checking for discoloration of the tongue
B) Asking about any unusual taste in the mouth
C) Asking about the presence of coffee-grounds emesis
D) Finding out about any unusual stress in the patient's life
C
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After a conducting a full assessment and obtaining a pretreatment baseline, you start the patient on albuterol with a small-volume jet nebulizer. You should continue assessing and documenting all appropriate variables before and after each treatment until what point? a. The patient's symptoms are relieved or the peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR)/forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEVl) ex-ceeds 70% of "personal best." b. The patient's wheezing disappears and the intensity of breath sounds decreases. c. The patient's symptoms are relieved or the PEFR/FEVl returns to the predicted nor-mal. d. The patient's SpO2 is above 90% and the PEFR/FEVl returns to the predicted nor-mal.
The application of communication and information to medical practice, research, and education is called
A) telemedicine. B) informatics. C) clearinghouse. D) sanctions.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Using an ICD-9-CM code book, select the appropriate code(s) for the diagnostic statements given in the following questions
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