Author Question: You have been dispatched to a residence for an 82-year-old female with unknown medical problems. ... (Read 53 times)

jake · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

You have been dispatched to a residence for an 82-year-old female with unknown medical problems. While enroute, your partner states at 82 years old, she probably has a ton of medical problems. Your response would be:

A) You are probably right since over half of persons over 60 years have heart disease.
B) I am guessing she does not, given her age and the fact she is not in a nursing home.
C) As we were taught in school, it is middle adulthood where people have the most medical problems.
D) Maybe not, since in late adulthood there is such a wide variety of health status.

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT one of the areas that has been identified as causing medical errors?

a. Rules-based failures
b. Skills-based failures
c. Equipment-based failures
d. Knowledge-based failures