_________ _________ is a developmental defect in which a portion of the spinal cord protrudes outside the vertebrae.

When an ALS provider has completed intubating your 39-year-old patient, she then checks for proper tube placement by:

a. listening for sounds upon auscultation of the stomach. b. listening to either lung. c. seeing an equal, bilateral chest rise with each ventilation. d. noting that the colorimetric CO2 detector is yellow.

Patients taking which of the following drugs should be warned of the possibility of orange-tinged body fluids?

A) Singulair B) Aerobid C) Rifadin D) Rhinocort