All of the following actions can help make taking a history on a sensitive subject easier EXCEPT:
A) attending a lecture or seminar on these sensitive subjects to learn more about them.
B) using euphemisms and metaphors to ask embarrassing questions.
C) asking some opening question to these subjects as practice.
D) observing experienced clinicians ask these types of questions.
B
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The presence of dizziness in a patient with a suspected myocardial infarction is MOST likely the result of:
A) fear and anxiety. B) the effects of nitroglycerin. C) acute left-sided heart failure. D) a reduction in cardiac output.
Evaluate the combinations of compliance and resistance and select the combination that will cause the lungs to empty slowest
a. CS = 0.05 L/cm H2O Raw = 2 cm H2O/(L/sec) b. CS = 0.05 L/cm H2O Raw = 6 cm H2O/(L/sec) c. CS = 0.03 L/cm H2O Raw = 5 cm H2O/(L/sec) d. CS = 0.03 L/cm H2O Raw = 8 cm H2O/(L/sec)