During the summer months, you work as an EMT at a first aid station that helps people who hike trails in the high mountains of the western United States. One afternoon, you are presented with a 13-year-old male patient who presents as alert and oriented, but complains of chest pain, dyspnea, and a headache. He is tachypneic and tachycardic and has slight inspiratory crackles. Given this presentation, what would be the most likely differential diagnosis?
A) Congenital heart disease
B) Fall while hiking causing a mild traumatic brain injury
C) Altitude-induced cerebral edema
D) High-altitude pulmonary edema
D) High-altitude pulmonary edema
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accurate. clean. complete. authorized.
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A. Neurosurgeon B. Medical assistant C. Pharmacist D. All of the above
Muscle origin is the place where the
muscle inserts. muscle begins. muscle ends. muscle is at its strongest.
Auscultation of the lung fields usually begins high and works its way down to the low bases. Lung fields reach as high as the ________ and can reach as low as the level of the umbilicus
A) lower sternum B) xiphoid process C) midnipple line D) shoulders