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An 8-year old child had a sudden onset of palpatations and light-headedness.  At the time of the evaluation the child is alert.  His respiratory rate is 26/min., and his blodd pressure is 104/70 mm Hg.  A cardiac monitor is applied, and the rhythm below is noted. ekg svt.png  What is  the most appropriate intervention?

The exercise of therapeutic privilege straightforwardly violates which principle of Biomedical Ethics:

An 8-year-old child was struck by a car. He arrives in the emergency department alert, anxious, and in respiratory distress. His cervical spine is immobilized, and he is receiving a 10-L/min flow of 100% oxygen by nonrebreathing face mask. His respiratory rate is 60/min, heart rate 150/min, systolic blood pressure 70 mm Hg, and SpO2 84%. Breath sounds are absent over the right chest but present over the left chest, and the trachea is deviated to the left. He has weak central pulses and absent distal pulses. Which intervention should be performed next?

For a 6-month-old infant with supraventricular tachycardia and adequate peerfusion, which of the following is the prefered vagal maneuver?

Kwashiorkor is a disease caused by malnutrition, primarily due to a lack of protein in the diet. It is often seen in starving children and characterized by a swollen belly. The low amount of protein in the blood causes water to leave the bloodstream and instead enter the tissues, causing edema or swelling. Therefore, the osmolarity in the blood in reference to the osmolarity of tissues would be considered which of the following?  

Jorge is waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). His wait time of 32 minutes is in the 85th percentile of wait times. Is that good or bad? Write a sentence interpreting the 85th percentile in the context of this situation.

For the following 13 real estate prices, calculate the following and determine if any prices listed below are potential outliers. Prices are in dollars. 389,950;         230,500;          158,000;             479,000;    639,000;     114,950;     5,500,000;    387,000;     659,000;     529,000;     575,000;     488,800;     1,095,000 Find quartile 1 [q1] Find quartile 3 [q3] Find the interquartile range [iqr] Find the lower boundary for outliers  [lb] Find the upper boundary for outliers [ub] List any potential outliers [out]

A young man is arrested for drunk driving after flunking a breath test for alcohol. When he comes before the judge he swears he was not drinking and argues that his car’s exhaust system was leaking carbon monoxide (CO) into the passenger compartment. This placed him in an anaerobic environment and his body switched over to the fermentation pathway, resulting in a buildup of alcohol in his blood stream. His story is ________.

A pulse-label experiment is performed on a certain human cell line, grown in tissue culture. In the experiment, radioactive deoxythymidine is added for 30 minutes as the “label” (anywhere thymidine is added will include a radioactively tagged thymidine.) The cells are then allowed to grow without radioactive thymidine for an additional length of time prior to harvest/collection. The cells are then examined for the presence of radioactive DNA in the nucleus. Cells that contained radioactive DNA and were undergoing active mitosis were counted.  Pulse-Label Analysis Image Description A graph of a pulse-label experiment to calculate the number of cells with radioactive DNA after the radioactive deoxythymidine is introduced before mitosis. Four hours after the end of the radioactive labeling, there is a sharp increase in the number of cell nuclei with the radioactive label, with 100% of the cells in mitosis showing radioactivity at the 8-hour mark. By the 12-hour mark, there has been a sharp decrease and the percentage returns to 0. Given the data, if the cell cycle in this particular cell line is 24 hours and M-phase lasts 30 minutes, how long is G1 in this particular cell line?

When data is categorized as, for example, places of residence (rural, suburban, urban), what is the most appropriate measure of central tendency?