You are called for a 6-year-old girl who is not well. Her mother says that the child has been sick for several days but today she has had trouble keeping her daughter awake. You note that the girl's capillary refill time is 4 seconds and she has a skin rash. The MOST important part of your assessment will be to:
A) recognize any respiratory distress. B) determine if she has a fever.
C) determine her level of consciousness. D) get a full SAMPLE history.
A
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Patti Wolfe, a coding supervisor at the local hospital, is auditing the quality of ICD-10-CM coding. She may start by running which type of index to scan for obvious inaccuracies?
A. provider B. disease C. procedure D. master patient
You respond to the scene of a motor vehicle crash to find a middle-aged man on a long spine board being cared for by first responding firefighters. He appears to be bleeding from his head and he is unconscious. You should check the car for:
A) personal items too valuable to leave on-scene. B) insurance information or identification. C) a bent steering wheel or starred windshield. D) a deployed passenger-side air bag.
Which of the following is a good clinical example of using the principle of convection to transfer heat?
a. Humidifiers with immersion heaters b. Heated, enclosed infant incubators c. Wire-heated pneumotachometers d. Heated ventilator exhalation valves
Incomplete documentation can result in denial of payment to health providers by insurance companies
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false