A person sitting next to you has the flu and sneezes but doesn't cover his nose. The next day you come down with the flu. The route of transmission is:

A. airborne.
B. direct contact.
C. common vehicle.
D. vector transmission.


Answer: A

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Alopecia ________ causes patches of baldness that come and go and affects about one in 100 people

a. areata b. aerate c. arete d. aureate

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You are treating a male patient with a sickle cell crisis. Vital signs are pulse, 124; respirations, 22 breaths/min; blood pressure, 156/92 mmHg; breathing, unlabored; and SpO2, 91%. Which instruction would you provide to other EMTs in the care of this patient?

A) "Let's place the patient on a nasal cannula with 2 lpm of oxygen." B) "I need someone to administer aspirin so we can thin his blood and get it moving." C) "The best thing we can do is just to transport the patient to the emergency department." D) "Remember that using a blood pressure cuff can cause significant bruising."

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Which of the following statements is true?

a. Providing a performance incentive to health care workers is not an implementation strategy, because it does not directly focus on patient behavior. b. Randomized trials are the most rigorous way to evaluate the impact of an implementation strategy, although other methods (such as regression discontinuity designs) can generate credible inferences when applied appropriately. c. The only reliable way to evaluate the health outcomes of a novel public messaging campaign is to survey individuals about self-reported health status. d. Implementation science focuses on the implementation of services and is not concerned with organizational changes that might affect public health outcomes.

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A(n) ____________________ is any CPT® code that was in the prior version of the manual but has been removed from the current version

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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