Answer to Question 1
A
Delirium develops rapidly, as opposed to dementia, which has an insidious onset. Other symptoms of delirium include fluctuating level of consciousness, logical thoughts alternating with illogical thoughts, presence of visual hallucinations, and daynight sleep reversal. Loss of ability to abstract is also seen in dementia. Delusions are common to dementia.
Answer to Question 2
B
Formication is the term used when an individual describes feeling bugs crawling under the skin. It is seen in cocaine use. The other options refer to altered sensory perceptions of sight and sound or to inventing stories to make up for memory deficit.
Emphysema. (a) Illustration comparing normal lungs and emphysemic lungs. The inserts illustrate how
Earth’s history is divided into nested sets of time--eons, eras, periods, and epochs--and is called
For ice massage, ice is frozen in a cylindrical container or a paper cup (A). The top half of the cu
An open chamber MRI may be more comfortable for the patient, but images may not be as distinct.
Assisting the patient to transfer from the bed or examining table to a wheelchair.
Nurse administering enteral nutrition through a feeding tube.