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SAVANNAHHOOPER23

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Your patient is a 75-year-old man whose family reports he is not acting right. The patient has right arm weakness and slurred speech. You suspect this patient is experiencing a:
 
  A) poisoning. B) seizure. C) heart attack. D) stroke.

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Of the following patients, which injury is the highest priority to receive bag-valve-mask ventilations?
 
  A) 25-year-old female victim of battery who is awake but complains of a headache and has bloody fluid draining from her nose and left ear
  B) 70-year-old male who struck his head when he fell in the parking lot, has a large laceration on his forehead, and is disoriented
  C) 25-year-old male who regained consciousness one or two minutes after being struck on the head by a baseball bat and is now asking repetitive questions
  D) 15-year-old female who was ejected from a vehicle, struck her head on a tree, and displays decerebrate movements in response to painful stimuli


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Cheesycrackers

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Reply #1 on: Jul 2, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

D


SAVANNAHHOOPER23

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Reply 2 on: Jul 2, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Excellent

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