You respond for a 52-year-old woman complaining of pain in her right calf. She has been relatively immobile since fracturing her ankle two weeks earlier. You should first suspect:
A) deep vein thrombosis.
B) pathological fracture.
C) multiple myeloma.
D) sickle cell crisis.
Question 2
Your patient is an 86-year-old man with a cardiac history. He takes blood thinners and a beta blocker for his heart. He is quite cool to the touch and his pulse oximeter reading is 87 percent. This is concerning because you know that:
A) the beta blocker can cause hypothermia in the elderly population.
B) hypothermia causes a shift in the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve.
C) beta blockers suppress hemoglobin leading to a decreased oxygen level.
D) hypothermia leads to an increased risk of pulmonary embolism.
Various sites of referred pain.
Nociceptive and Neuropathic Orofacial Pain
Old Woman
Skeletal Structure of a Calf
Endogenous Analgesic Compounds Released After Pain Stimuli