When assessing a patient's pulse, you can locate the right radial pulse, but not the left. Which one of the following is the most likely explanation for this finding?
A) The patient is in the early stage of cardiac arrest.
B) The left radial artery is extremely large.
C) There is a problem with the patient's veins.
D) The left radial artery may be occluded.
Question 2
Medical direction has advised you to place a patient who is obese and extremely short of breath in a supine position. Knowing that doing so will cause the patient to become more short of breath, your best action would be to:
A) explain your concern to the physician and ask for clarification.
B) place the patient in the supine position and expedite transport.
C) contact a different hospital and transport the patient there.
D) ask your partner what he would do.
Assessing for pit edema
Instruct the patient to use an applicator to apply a small amount of stool in the appropriate boxes ...
(a) Chicken pox vesicles. (b) Chicken pox on back of young patient.
Patient Physical Status Classification
Body sites where the peripheral pulse is most easily palpated
Palpating the brachial pulse