You respond to a patient with difficulty breathing. Upon assessment you notice that the patient is sitting in the tripod position, with marked JVD. The patient has clubbing in the fingers and new pitting edema. You should suspect:
A) CHF.
B) COPD.
C) cor pulmonale.
D) pulmonary neoplasm.
Question 2
Tachyphylaxis can be managed by:
A) changing to a similar drug in the same family.
B) decreasing the frequency with which the medication is administered.
C) decreasing the dosage of the medication.
D) concurrently administering an anti-inflammatory drug to blunt the allergic response.
Helping maintain accurate patient records is a critical part of the medical assistant's work.
The physician uses auscultation to listen to a patient’s heart.
A histologic slide showing the sponge-like architecture of a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Pneumonia patient’s chest x-ray. Note the irregular areas of density.
(a) A photograph of a radial immunodiffusion reaction for measurement of patient IgA concentrations. ...