While interviewing a patient, you note obvious use of the neck muscles during regular inspiration, especially the scalenes. This finding is consistent with which of the following?
A. COPD
B. orthopnea
C. pulmonary embolism
D. myasthenia gravis
Ans: A. COPD
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Your ICU patient has ARDS with a pO2 of 62 mmHg, despite mechanical ventilation and oxygenation. Which of the following best explains this finding?
A) It is a problem with perfusion. B) It is a problem with ventilation. C) It is a problem with the blood gas sample collection. D) It is a problem with gas diffusion in the lung.
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Information on institutional corruption in sports is scarce partly because gathering that information
A. is tedious and dangerous. B. is not important to the future of sports. C. requires research skills that neither sociologists nor journalists possess. D. does not interest sociologists or investigative journalists.
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