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Garrulous

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The respiratory therapist is called to evaluate a patient for arterial line placement needed for accessibility and repeated ABG sampling.
 
  In evaluating the risk of bleeding, the therapist should establish that the patient has a platelet count of at least ____/mm3 before recommending placement of the arterial line.
  a. 1,000
  b. 10,000
  c. 20,000
  d. 50,000
  e. 100,000
  f. 200,000

Question 2

The preferred stain that is used to identify the TB organism is called:
 
  a. Gram stain.
  b. fluorescent acid-fast stain.
  c. Ziehl-Neelsen.
  d. gentian violet.


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jlaineee

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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
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Generally, platelet counts greater than 50,000/mm3 are not associated with spontaneous bleeding. Therefore, various diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, such as bronchoscopy or the insertion of an arterial catheter, are usually safe when the platelet count is greater than 50,000/mm3.

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