A single instance of blood pressure dropping below 90 systolic has what effect on a head-injured patient?
A) Increase in positive outcome B) Decrease in mortality rate
C) Increase in mortality rate D) No effect at all on outcome
C
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Your patient is a 17-year-old male driver of a vehicle that received a lateral impact at the driver's side door. There are no side-impact airbags, and there is about 8 inches of intrusion into the passenger compartment at the left door. Your patient is complaining of left shoulder pain and pain "in his left side." He has a contusion on the left shoulder and deformity of the left clavicle. He has erythema over the left lateral thorax from ribs 6 through 12 with crepitus on palpation. Which of the following injuries should you suspect?
1. Blunt trauma to the spleen 2. Blunt trauma to the liver 3. Penetrating trauma to the spleen 4. Penetrating trauma to the liver 5. Left pneumothorax 6. Fracture of the left clavicle A) 1, 2, 6 B) 2, 4, 6 C) 1, 5, 6 D) 2, 5, 6
Moderate to marked target cells are found on a blood film. Which of the following can most likely be eliminated
a. Hb C disease b. Hereditary spherocytosis c. Hb E disease d. Sickle cell disease
Select the appropriate code(s) to report an injection of rabies immune globulin performed under direct physician supervision.
A) 96372 B) 90471 C) 90375, 96372 D) 90375, 90473