One of the projected benefits for ICD-10-CM/PCS is that public officials can better track and respond to domestic and international public health threats

Your patient, a known alcoholic, has developed a cardiac arrhythmia that you intend to treat with synchronized cardioversion. Because he is awake, you decide to administer diazepam to ease this experience. However, you find that to induce the desired state you must administer more than twice the normal dose of diazepam. This condition is known as:

A) cumulative effect. B) cross tolerance. C) tachyphylaxis. D) idiosyncrasy.

Certain infections are called _____________________ because they are especially contagious, harmful, or have no effective treatment

a. notifiable diseases c. vectors b. communicable diseases d. fomites