Once a position has been offered to the medical assistant, a conversation regarding salary and benefits should ensue

Which of the following patient conditions requires immediate transport?

A) Neck pain following a motor vehicle collision B) Unresponsiveness to painful stimuli after ALS interventions C) Narcotic overdose D) Wrist fracture with diminished distal sensation

A patient is admitted through the hospital emergency department with thrombosis, and heparin is initially begun. Her baseline PTT, before heparin therapy, is prolonged at 68 seconds

Further laboratory studies determine that she has the lupus anticoagulant. What test should be used to monitor her heparin therapy? a. PTT b. PTT after first adding antithrombin to her plasma c. Chromogenic anti-Xa assay d. TT after first making a 1:10 dilution of the patient plasma