A 6-year-old girl with a diagnosis of Marfan syndrome is being assessed at a community health clinic. Which of the following assessments would be the health care professional’s lowest priority? Answers: A. A musculoskeletal assessment B. A test of the child’s visual acuity C. Tests of kidney function D. Cardiovascular assessment
In the ICU setting, a patient transported from surgery following open heart bypass grafting will likely have his core temperature measured by a/an Answers: A. esophageal flexible thermometer monitoring aorta distention. B. rectal tube inserted to prevent evacuation from bowels while recovering from anesthesia. C. pulmonary artery catheter being used to measure cardiac output. D. […]
The son of an 80-year-old man has noticed that in recent weeks his father has become incontinent of urine for the first time in his life. The man is later diagnosed with transient urinary incontinence, a condition that is most often attributable to Answers: A. medications. B. detrusor instability. C. decrease in bladder and sphincter […]
A health educator is teaching a group of colleagues about the physiology of thermoregulation. Which of the following statements is most accurate? Answers: A. “Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) exerts a direct fever-producing effect on the hypothalamus.” B. “Endogenous pyrogens induce host cells to produce exogenous pyrogens.” C. “PGE2 induces Kupffer cells to initiate a fever response […]