An insurance company has an allowed amount for services and procedures based on its _________________________

Besides placing the patient in a position of comfort, which of the following describes appropriate pain management for an adult patient with suspected renal calculi?

A) Oxygen administration and 1 mg of morphine sulfate every 5 minutes B) Administration of narcotic analgesics or IV nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs C) Administration of oxygen and oral acetaminophen D) Administration of oxygen only; avoid narcotics as they can mask the pain for physician evaluation

The esculin/PYR disk test can be used to rapidly identify

A) Enterococcus spp. B) Streptococcus pneumoniae. C) Streptococcus pyogenes. D) both A and B. E) both A and C.