ICD-10-CM/PCS also includes updated medical terminology and classification of diseases, provides codes to allow comparison of mortality and morbidity data, and provides better data for __________
a. designing payment systems
b. eliminating the need for research
c. increasing fraud and abuse
d. measuring care furnished to facilities
a
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Your patient is a 66-year-old female who has regained a pulse after a shock with an AED; however, she remains unresponsive and is not breathing adequately. Which of the following should be done next?
A) Deliver a fourth shock to improve the patient's respiratory status. B) Remove the AED and assist the patient's ventilations with a bag-valve mask and supplemental oxygen, and keep re-assessing the pulse. C) Apply a nonrebreather mask with high-concentration oxygen and keep reassessing the pulse. D) Assist ventilations with a bag-valve-mask device and supplemental oxygen and anticipate that the patient may go back into cardiac arrest.
Which of the following is a special consideration when administering ACE inhibitors?
Hypercalcemia Cataract Hyperkalemia Hypertension