Your patient is a 56-year-old female who is alert and sitting in a chair. She states that she accidentally took too many of her Cardizem tablets. Which of the following signs or symptoms would you least expect to find?
A) Cool, dry skin and mild hypotension
B) Warm, dry skin and tachycardia
C) Cool, diaphoretic skin and profound hypotension
D) Bradycardia and altered mental status
Question 2
After you talk with the patient, she decides to allow you to treat her injury and says that she will go in the ambulance to the hospital. This form of consent is known as:
A) uninformed consent. B) expressed consent.
C) minor's consent. D) implied consent.
Female (doe)
Phacopid trilobite, Devonian age, Ohio, United States
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