NFPA 1983 categorizes life safety ropes as light-use (or one-person) or general-use (or two-person) ropes and sets minimum ____ requirements for each.

Listed below are factors that tend to overload the external oblique EXCEPT:

a. Excessive abdominal exercise b. Psychoemotional distress c. Rapid heating of the lateral torso muscles d. Prolonged intra-abdominal compression

In which of the following conditions would you find a patient with myxedema?

A) Hyperthyroidism B) Graves' disease C) Hypothyroidism D) Addison disease