You are called to treat a patient with a suspected bowel obs…
You are called to treat a patient with a suspected bowel obstruction. The patient is unresponsive, tachycardic,tachypnic, hypotensive, significantly distended, hyperresonant to abdominal percussion, and vomiting feces-containing emesis. Which of the following is your MOST important and immediate intervention?
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You are called to a local assisted living center for an elderly patient with diabetes and an altered level ofconsciousness. You are unable to assess a blood glucose level. Select the MOST appropriate reason for givinginstant glucose?
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During an assessment, you are preparing to take a blood pressure on an emergent patient. As you move theshirtsleeve to gain access, you note the patient has a hemodialysis shunt in the arm. You have learned that it is bestto take the blood pressure in:
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