Your patient is in four-point restraints and starts to spit at you during transport. You should:
A) put a nonrebreather mask on the patient but do not administer oxygen.
B) place the patient prone, with his face turned away from you.
C) place a surgical mask over the patient's mouth and nose.
D) wear a HEPA respirator or an N-95 mask.
C
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You respond to the scene of a motor vehicle collision involving a small pickup truck that struck the rear of a moving tractor-trailer. The driver of the tractor-trailer is walking around and complains of neck pain. The driver of the pickup truck is conscious, but cannot exit the vehicle because the door is stuck and the steering wheel is displaced onto his lap. The passenger of the pickup truck
is sitting upright in the passenger seat, is unconscious, but has radial pulses. Access to the passenger is not obstructed. A fourth patient, who was sitting in the pickup truck bed, is found about 10 feet away and responds to commands appropriately. Assuming your ambulance is the only emergency vehicle on the scene currently, which of the following patients should be packaged for transport first by the next arriving ambulance? A) Passenger in the pickup truck's front seat B) Tractor trailer driver C) Passenger ejected from the pickup truck bed D) Pickup truck driver
A ____, a transient neurologic symptom that occurs at the time of injury and resolves after a short period of time, results from the stretching of nerves.
A. SCIWORA B. stinger C. commotio cordis D. rupture
Billing for a procedure that is reimbursed at a higher rate than the procedure actually performed is considered:
a. unbundling. b. overbilling. c. a kickback. d. upcoding.
When findings have three states, which of the following is not a correct match between state and color code?
A) Neutral = gray B) Negative = yellow C) Normal = blue D) Abnormal = red