__________ __________ can be evaluated using the AVPU scale

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Mental; status

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You are dispatched to the local elementary school for an injured student. Upon arrival you find that two 7-year-olds got into a fight and one of them jabbed a pencil in the other's cheek. The pencil is still sticking out of the child's cheek. When you examine the patient, you cannot see the end of the pencil that went through the cheek, as it appears to be stuck in the palate. There is not

significant bleeding, and the child is not having any difficulty breathing. The child is very upset and wants you to pull the pencil out. What should you do? A) Stabilize the object, but do not try to remove it. B) Call the parents and see what they want you to do. C) Remove the object and put a bandage on the outside of the cheek. D) Let the child carefully pull the object out.

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Which of the following patients with hemorrhagic shock is likely to be internally bleeding, solely?

A) A 50-year-old man with a stab wound to the neck B) A 45-year-old woman with a suspected ruptured ectopic pregnancy C) A 38-year-old man with an open femur fracture D) A 26-year-old man with a gunshot wound involving the popliteal artery

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How is erythrocyte morphology likely to be described in patients with AML?

a. Normocytic normochromic b. Microcytic hypochromic c. Microcytic normochromic d. Variable with anisocytosis

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The daily inpatient census is correctly defined as the number of inpatients present at census-taking time each day plus the number of inpatients who were both admitted and discharged after the census-taking time the previous day

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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