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For inverse goods, income and demand are inversely related.  

Which of the following indicate progression into stage IV refractory shock? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY        

TRUE/FALSE The “exclusionary rule” is not applied in grand jury proceedings. 

TRUE/FALSE A search warrant not executed within a reasonable time is void.  

Economic growth is an increase in the productive capacity of an economy.

For normal goods, income and demand are directly related.

A 74 year old woman with a history of HTN, DM, CAD, and right sided heart failure presents to your unit with urosepsis and septic shock. Her vital signs are the following: T 104.2F, HR 123, BP 77/48 (MAP 58), RR 31, O2 saturation 92% on 5L NC. On exam, she reports feeling short of breath, and has +3 pitting edema. Which of the following most likely indicates the patient is intravascularly dry?

Deflation is a decrease in the price level.  

A shortage is when quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied.

A 58 year old with a history of hypertension, diabetes, end stage renal disease, and peripheral vascular disease presents after a car accident with a left pneumothorax, and in hypovolemic shock from multiple hemorrhaging sites. The patient is given 2L of lactated ringers to improve the blood pressure, until ordered blood products arrive. The patient’s blood pressure improves after the first liter, but does not respond to the second, so a Norepinephrine (Levophed) gtt is ordered. Given the information provided, which of the following accesses placed emergently would be most appropriate for a vasopressor infusion?