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What is the name of the acute but reversible encephalopathy seen in alcoholics with thiamine deficiencies?

Your ambulance responds to a nursing facility for a “sick person”. Your assessment reveals a patient looking jaundiced and lethargic and vomiting. The patient has an intact gag reflex. The patient is otherwise unresponsive with tachycardia, hypotension (98/46), and a decreasing respiratory effort. Select the proper treatment.

In which of the following is the use of gloves and following careful infection control the most critical?

You are dispatched to a 55-year-old male with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. When you arrive on the scene you find the man to be in the end stages of shock. He is wet, pale, and unresponsive with a barely palpable carotid pulse. His breathing is agonal and you quickly load for transport. The wife reports that the man had severe lower abdominal pain that came on quickly. He was rolling around on the floor before he became unresponsive. As you try to put all of this together, you believe that most likely this man has suffered a/an:

Select which answer would BEST describe the patient with hemorrhaging from the mouth, extreme dyspnea and cyanosis, anxiousness, pallor, and a history of liver cirrhosis

An inflammation of the small outpouchings in the mucosal lining of the intestinal tract is referred to as which of the following?

Your unresponsive, 65-year-old female patient has low-amplitude bradycardia, thin hair, and doughy, edematous skin. She MOST likely has:

The condition related to the increase of intraocular fluid is known as?

The nurse is teaching a female patient about precautions to take while on doxycycline for her acne. Which of the following statements is most important for the nurse to make?

You arrive at a school to treat a child with a sports injury. The sixteen-year-old-was playing basketball and was hit in the nose. The child’s nose is bleeding heavily and the coach is holding an ice bag under the nose. You take over treatment and identify the correct treatment would be to: