During your assessment of a 33-year-old female with an altered mental status, you note a fruity odor on her breath. You should:

Migraine headaches are thought to be caused by:

During your assessment of a patient with closed head trauma, you note that he opens his eyes in response to pain, groans when you speak to him, and withdraws his shoulder when you pinch his earlobe. You should assign him a Glasgow Coma Scale score of:

Which of the following is consistent with a narcotic (opiate/opioid) toxidrome?

The recognition by one state of another state’s EMS licensure is called:

You are assessing a young male with an acute onset of tachypnea. He is conscious and alert with shallow respirations of 40 breaths/min, and complains of numbness and tingling to his face and hands. The patient’s girlfriend tells you that he has been very worried about his mother, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. Appropriate treatment for this patient includes:

If the heart’s natural pacemaker is not functioning properly:

For which of the following conditions would you MOST likely encounter a ventriculoperitoneal shunt?

Shortly following a meal, a 49-year-old female complains of acute pain to the right upper quadrant of her abdomen with referred pain to her right shoulder. This is MOST suggestive of acute:

The shaft of a bone is called the: