The major advantage of the multilumen airway is that:
A) it can be used in children and adults as an alternative airway device.
B) no mask seal is required to ventilate with either of the multilumen airways.
C) intubating the trachea with the multilumen airway in place is extremely easy.
D) effective ventilation is possible if the tube enters the esophagus or the trachea
Answer: D) effective ventilation is possible if the tube enters the esophagus or the trachea
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A) A 37-year-old female diagnosed in the emergency department with a hemorrhagic stroke 2 hours after its onset B) A 48-year-old male whose symptoms started while watching the 6 P.M. news, at which time he dialed 911 C) An 81-year-old male who awoke with stroke symptoms after an 8-hour sleep D) A 62-year-old female whose stroke symptoms started at 8 A.M. and disappeared half an hour later
If Wernicke's syndrome is left untreated, then a condition called ____, with permanent memory loss, can result.
A. Cushing's psychosis B. Korsakoff's psychosis C. Palmer's psychosis D. Weiner's psychosis
A device that substitutes for the normal pacemaker cells of the heart's electrical conduction system is a(n):
A. artificial pacemaker. B. universal pacemaker. C. central pacemaker. D. voluntary pacemaker.
For the following questions, use an ICD-9-CM code book and select the appropriate code(s) from the diagnostic statement given
Spontaneous total tension pneumothorax