Inability of the velum to elevate can result in ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
hypernasality
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A simple way to remember how to make an alligation grid is to remember that it looks like the game:
A) Chess. B) Hangman. C) Tic-tac-toe. D) Dots.
Your patient is the? 23-year-old female victim of an attempted abduction at knifepoint. The assailant was interrupted and drew his knife across the? victim's throat as he fled the scene. A first responder on the scene immediately applied direct pressure to the neck wound. Your assessment reveals a very agitated young woman with ongoing blood loss despite direct pressure to the wound. There appears to be both? bright-red bleeding and slower but steady? dark-red bleeding. It appears that the trachea has not been penetrated but that there is a hematoma around the laceration. Which of the following is the most appropriate sequence of intervention for this? patient?
A) Apply a pressure dressing to the wound, accompanied by pressure-point compression.
B) Use rapid sequence intubation of the patient to protect the trachea from the expanding hematoma while maintaining direct pressure on the wound.
C) Apply an occlusive dressing to the wound, and continue direct pressure.
D) Apply direct pressure, and request an order from medical control to decompress the hematoma.
Describe the main components of an EOB from a medical insurance company.
What will be an ideal response?
A 45-year-old woman calls EMS because of severe chest pain. When you arrive, she advises you that she has taken two of her husband's nitroglycerin tablets without relief. What is your most appropriate course of action?
A. Attach the AED, administer 100% oxygen, and contact medical control for advice. B. Apply supplemental oxygen and transport the patient to the hospital without delay. C. Call medical control and request permission to assist the patient with one more nitroglycerin tablet. D. Obtain the patients's blood pressure and administer one more nitroglycerin tablet if her blood pressure is greater than 100 mm Hg systolic.