A patient was admitted to the hospital in severe respiratory distress with an admitting diagnosis of "rule out carcinoma of the lung.". The patient has had a long history of chronic obstructive bronchitis. After work-up and treatment, the patient was discharged. The attending physician documented the following diagnoses on the face sheet: chronic obstructive bronchitis and acute bronchitis due to
pneumococcus, essential hypertension, arteriosclerotic heart disease. The following procedures were documented on the face sheet: bronchoscopy with biopsy. The principal diagnosis code is __________.
a. B95.3
b. C34.90
c. J44.0
d. I10
c
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Testing for ________ vision acuity should be done if the patient complains of difficulty reading or performing other close-range tasks
a. near b. distant c. isolated d. secluded
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Which one of the following does NOT describe an atrial P wave?
A) It may dip below the isoelectric line. B) It can be flattened or peaked. C) It is uniformly rounded. D) It may be diphasic.
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