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gbarreiro

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The barometric pressure is 760 mmHg, and you are calibrating a blood gas instrument with a mixture of 5 PCO2 and 10 O2. What are your expected calibration results?
  I. 38.0 mmHg
  II. 76.0 mmHg
  III. 35.7 mmHg
  IV. 71.3 mmHg
 A) I and II
  B) I and IV
  C) II and III
  D) III and IV

Question 2

A 12-year-old patient suffering from paralysis of the optic muscles, difficulty swallowing and speaking, and generalized muscle weakness, especially following exercise was seen in the clinic. Following administration of endrophonium (Tensilon), the patient's muscle strength returned to normal for approximately five minutes. Which of the following is the likely diagnosis?
 A) myasthenia gravis
  B) Reye's syndrome
  C) Werdnig-Hoffman paralysis
  D) Guillain-Barr syndrome


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ong527

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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

A


gbarreiro

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Reply 2 on: Jul 16, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Gracias!

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