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Submerging a patient’s hands in ice water resulting in a more than 20% drop in peak systolic pressure is an examination performed for which syndrome? 

Difficulty in breathing, of which the individual is aware is known as ______. 

Using a four-cuff setup on the right lower extremity, the examiner notes a high-thigh cuff pressure of 130mmHg, with the remaining pressures averaging 115mmHg.  The higher brachial pressure is 160 mmHg.  All of the following significant conditions could produce these findings, EXCEPT:

6 (14 pts). A survey wants to know whether people in a city with ages 16-19 years old spend less than 2 hours on TV daily. A sample of 600 people with the ages 16-19 show the sample mean x– = 1.9 hours. Suppose the population standard deviation σ = 0.3 hour. (a) What is the population? What is the sample? (b) At α = 0.01 level of significance, determine whether there is evidence that that the population mean is less than 2 hours. (c) Identify the type of error for your conclusion. Find the probability of error and probability of confidence if it is type I error.

Your next patient had carotid stenting for recurrent narrowing of the ICA following carotid endarterectomy (CEA).  How might this stent affect blood flow velocities?  

Your next patient is complaining of pain in his left calf muscle every time he gets to the third hole at the gold course.  As you scan your patient’s proximal superficial femoral artery you get PSVs of 52cm/s.  Just distal to that you find flows of 258 cm/s.  What would your preliminary report include?

When you are ready to start the exam,  Click “Modules” on the left and open Pearson MyStatLab.  exam 1 will come up in MyStatLab.  Once you answer all the questions in MyStatLab, come back to Canvas and click “Submit Quiz” button below. 

Which of the following statements about this figure is TRUE?  

You are the RT working in the emergency department in a rural hospital (at sea level). A healthy 60-year-old woman was brought to the emergency department in a comatose state, breathing very shallowly. Her family stated that she had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Arterial blood gases, were obtained while she was breathing room air, revealed a PaO2 of 55 mm Hg, a PaCO2 of 70 mm Hg, and pH of 7.15.  The physician has asked you to calculate the PA02, choose the closest result to your findings below. 

Your carotid duplex study documents an occluded right ICA on a 72 y.o. female.  The left ICA has a 50-69% diameter reduction based on flow velocities.  What is the most likely explanation for the antegrade flow detected in the right anterior cerebral artery (ACA) with TCD?