Pursing of the lips requires contraction of which muscle?

While providing a continuing education seminar for your EMS system about geriatric patients, which point about geriatric trauma would you make?

A) MVCs are responsible for more than 75 percent of deaths among elderly patients B) Head injuries are easy to detect in the elderly C) Hyperthermia is an early sign of blood loss D) Injuries in elderly patients are most commonly caused by falls

The appropriate way to maintain patient confidentiality is to ________.

A. tell the patient you cannot take confidential information over the telephone B. repeat the information over the phone to make sure that you understood it correctly C. put the message in a file folder marked "Confidential" and place the folder on the physician's desk D. tell the physician the information in the hallway between patients E. leave a confidential message on the physician's desk for his attention