You are testing Rick's sensation/perception. Which of the following tests should be least rele-vant to his disability?
A. Touch and superficial pain
B. Position sense and stereognosis
C. Body scheme and visual spatial perception
D. Thermal and pressure sensitivity
ANS: C
Problems with body scheme and visual spatial perception are typically not associated with spinal cord injury but instead more frequently found in diagnoses involving brain damage such as cere-brovascular accident and traumatic brain injury.
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a. 60-100 BPM. b. 40-60 BPM. c. 20-40 BPM. d. 10-20 BPM.
Once the need for long-term home O2 therapy has been documented, why should repeated labor-atory assessment (ABG or oximetry) be conducted?
1. To follow the course of the disease 2. To assess changes in clinical status 3. To facilitate changes in the prescription a. 1 and 2 only b. 2 and 3 only c. 1 and 3 only d. 1, 2, and 3
Your patient is a 48-year-old female with advanced hepatitis secondary to drug and alcohol abuse. She is confused and is non-compliant with her medications. Which of the following is the most likely cause of her confusion?
a. Anemia
b. Hyperglycemia
c. Elevated ammonia levels
d. Hypercoagulative state
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A) admission diagnoses B) differential diagnoses C) primary diagnoses D) secondary diagnoses