A participating provider in a managed health care program must write off

Your patient presents with a single stab wound to the right chest. He complains of sharp pain while breathing and feels short of breath. His lung sounds are clear on the left but diminished on the right. You suspect:

A) flail chest. B) spinal injury. C) pneumothorax. D) injury to the larynx.

A tracheal aspirate, obtained from a comatose patient on a ventilator, grew an oxidase-positive non-lactose fermenter that produced a distinctive odor of sliced apples

It proved to be: Motile: positive Nitrate: red after addition of reagents A, B, and zinc OF medium: open tubes: glucose: blue, maltose: blue, lactose: blue, sucrose: blue closed tubes: glucose: green, maltose: green, lactose: green, sucrose: green This organism is A) Acinetobacter baumannii. B) Elizabethkingia meningosepticum. C) Alcaligenes faecalis. D) Moraxella nonliquefaciens.