You are performing a secondary assessment and are assessing the patient's chest. Which of these findings would you associate most with fracture of the ribs?
A) Ecchymosis to the chest wall
B) Decreased breath sounds
C) Paradoxical chest wall motion
D) Jugular venous distention
C) Paradoxical chest wall motion
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Digoxin is prescribed to patients with congestive heart failure primarily to:
A) improve myocardial contractility and cardiac output. B) improve blood flow to the lungs, thereby reducing pulmonary edema. C) achieve a negative chronotropic effect and thereby reduce the myocardial workload. D) control rapid ventricular rates, because many of these patients also have atrial fibrillation.
Monies owed to a provider by insurance carriers or patients makes up the __________
Fill in the blank with correct word.
. How many bones make up the skull?
A. 8 B. 12 C. 16 D. 22
When an ambulance collides with a citizen's vehicle at an intersection:
A) it is because the citizen failed to yield the right of way. B) the driver of the ambulance may be charged criminally. C) most state laws provide immunity to the EMS vehicle. D) EMS providers are rarely found at fault in civil lawsuits.