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You are evaluating the x-ray from a patient in the emergency room. Identify your findings based on the image below.   

A congenital cardiac defect such as an ASD can best be diagnosed by ______. 

You are teaching a nursing student about ECMO in your facility, what would you be the best description of the modes of ECMO support?

A 4-year-old child is brought into the emergency room (ER) by her parents, who state that an abrupt high fever developed along with a severe sore throat, dysphagia with drooling, and cough. In the ER, the girl exhibits stridor, muffled voice (hot potato) without hoarseness, air hunger, and cyanosis. She also has suprasternal, substernal, and intercostal retractions, with nasal flaring, bradypnea, and dyspnea. The child is sitting upright with her chin thrust forward and her neck hyperextended in a tripod position and in the sniffing position. What condition is she likely exhibiting?

What distance is generally considered the maximum mileage in one direction for ground transport of a critically ill child?

In the emergency room, a patient with smoke inhalation injury will tend to display ________. 

A patient in the emergency department is being evaluated for nasal congestion, low grade fever, and coughing with a barking cough. The x-ray below is observed, the most likely diagnosis for this patient would be _______.   

A 10-month-old child has been brought into the emergency room (ER) by his or her parents, who state that after few days with low-grade fever, malaise, a hoarse voice and rhinorrhea, their child presented with inspiratory stridor and a “barking” cough with increased work of breathing with a pencil point image on the neck x-ray. What condition is this child likely exhibiting?

What is the main difference between the circulatory systems of fish and mammals?

What is the primary function of the exoskeleton in arthropods?