You are called to a long-term care facility for a patient with altered mental status and a fever. The staff reports that the patient has an indwelling catheter and he has been passing dark colored urine. He is hypotensive with an O2 saturation of 87 percent. You should suspect:
A) life-threatening sepsis.
B) a severe spinal infection.
C) a blocked intraventricular shunt.
D) a contaminated ostomy bag
A
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A) Comprehension B) Application C) Analysis D) Evaluation
Which of the following statements regarding behavioral emergencies is NOT true?
A) Differences in culture may initially appear to be abnormal behaviors to the EMT. B) Apparent behavioral emergencies may be due to an underlying medical cause. C) It would be unusual to find a person with schizophrenia outside a mental health facility. D) Patients experiencing a behavioral emergency are not always dangerous to themselves or others.
The first 12 inches of the small intestine are the ________.
A. duodenum B. jejunum C. anonym D. ileum
Jeff is being seen today for his hypopituitarism, induced by the drug bleomycin, initial encounter. The coder should assign code(s):
A. E23.1 B. E23.1, T45.1X5A C. T45.1X5A D. T45.1X5A, E23.1