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Which of the following situations will NOT require additional resources at the scene?

By agreeing, you agree to abide by the policies in the syllabus.   

You are called for a patient who is complaining of being weak and dizzy. He reports that he does not have enough money to pay for his medications so he has not gotten them refilled. Your service has an automatic blood pressure machine and you use it to measure the patient’s blood pressure while you count his respirations. The blood pressure machine reports a blood pressure of 280/140. What should you do next?

Your patient is a 45-year-old female who complains of “twisting her ankle” when she slipped on a patch of ice. Which of the following is not appropriate?

Students should attend class in appropriate clothes.

Your patient is a 16-year-old female who is reporting abdominal pain and nausea. She says it came on when she woke up this morning. Her mother says that her daughter has been tired and cranky lately and has not been eating well for a couple of weeks. In fact, every time you ask a question, the patient’s mother answers. What should you do next?

Of the following, which would most likely give the best information regarding your patient’s mental status?

Are you ready to have a great semester in Emergency medicine? 

A kitten is deprived of visual stimulation in one eye for the first 2 months of its life via monocular eyelid closure. Then the lid suture is removed forever. After the cat reaches adulthood, you record action potentials from neurons in the visual cortex upon visual stimuli presented to both eyes (one eye at a time, as shown in class). Which outcome would you expect?

What would happen if Mg2+ is not expelled from NMDA channels?