You have been called for a 77-year-old female with altered mental status. On scene, you note the patient's inability to speak and vomitus in her airway. Her breathing is labored and inadequate, and radial pulse rapid and weak. She is not moving her right arm or right leg. What should be your first priority?
A) Start positive pressure ventilation with supplemental oxygen
B) Administer glucose and immediately transport the patient to a stroke center
C) Suction the airway and determine adequacy of the breathing
D) Establish the time of stroke onset and start high-concentration oxygen
C) Suction the airway and determine adequacy of the breathing
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A. Medicare B. The husband’s group policy
Provide the current definition of epidemiology.
What will be an ideal response?
Nitroglycerine is a medication commonly prescribed to patients with angina pectoris. Nitroglycerine helps relieve cardiac chest pain because it:
A) constricts the blood vessels, reducing the workload of the heart. B) constricts the blood vessels, increasing blood pressure. C) dilates the blood vessels and increases the workload of the heart. D) dilates the blood vessels and reduces the workload of the heart.
The modifier -52 is used to indicate:
A. prolonged evaluation and management (E/M) service. B. unrelated E/M service by the same physician during a postoperative period. C. significant, separately identifiable E/M service by the same physician on the same day of the procedure or other service. D. reduced services.