Your patient is a 40-year-old male. As a child he would have been least likely to have suffered from:
A) RSV.
B) pertussis.
C) measles.
D) mumps.
Question 2
You are dispatched to a private residence for a sick person. When you arrive you are told by the patient that due to the snow storm yesterday he missed his scheduled appointment at the dialysis center and is not feeling well. Your assessment does not reveal anything remarkable outside of the fact that he has missed his dialysis. Which of the steps below would NOT be part of your care?
A) When you obtain vital signs, obtain a blood pressure on an arm that does not have a fistula.
B) Assess the ABCs.
C) Place the patient in a supine position.
D) Administer oxygen at 15 lpm by nonrebreather mask.
Lumbar puncture. Abbreviated LP, the lumbar puncture is a common procedure that withdraws cerebrospi
Measles. A photograph of a child stricken with measles, showing the tell-tale sign of the skin rash.
Patient teaching: ear assessment
The approval of a new drug is a four-stage process: (1) preclinical investigation, (2) clinical inve
(a) Chicken pox vesicles. (b) Chicken pox on back of young patient.