A 17-year-old patient is unresponsive. A medical identification bracelet states that he is diabetic. Which of the following actions would you perform first?
A) Administer oral glucose.
B) Determine the type of diabetes.
C) Assess the airway.
D) Check for a pulse.
C
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Your patient is a 17-year-old female who is unconscious. Friends report that she seemed confused and was speaking incoherently, became combative when they tried to intervene, and then fainted. You recognize these as signs of:
A. a diabetic emergency. B. an altered mental state. C. a stroke. D. a drug overdose.
Step 4 of the five-step process of analyzing and locating the correct ICD involves
A. recording the diagnosis code on the insurance claim. B. locating the statement of the diagnosis in the patient's medical record. C. finding the code that corresponds to the patient's specific disease or condition. D. locating the code from the Alphabetic Index in the ICD's Tabular Index.