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The following 7 questions  refer to the following scenario for Chris Martin. Chris Martin is a 29 year old man with cystic fibrosis (CF) admitted to the hospital for a pulmonary infection.  He has a barrel chest, dry skin and mucous membranes, clubbing of the nailbeds,  dyspnea on exertion, difficulty gaining weight,  pedal edema, & steatorrhea.  Mr. Martin is awaiting a lung transplant and hopes donor lungs become available soon. Vital signs are  38.8C, 108, 26, 98/64. The following laboratory values are obtained:

Chemotherapy is administered to Mr. Cort & one week later another CBC reveals:

2.3 Study Source E (2)   What can you learn from Source E about Kaiser Wilhem II?  

Updated CBC for Ms. Lipton:

Medications are changed and week later another Complete Blood Count reveals:

1.2 Right click on the source button to view Source A:   Using the source and your own knowledge describe what life was like in the trenches. (4)

2.1 Identify which event is illustrated in Source B? (1)

The following Complete Blood Count is assessed:

A CT Scan of the chest reveals a lung mass.  The sputum cytology reveals atypical hyperplasia with cells compatible with a diagnosis of Oat cell carcinoma.

2.4 What type of source is Source F and how do you know this? (2)