Which of the following is one of the three major factors driving rising health care costs and expenditures?

Following trauma, edema occurs due to an increase in tissue osmotic pressure and

A) capillary osmotic pressure B) capillary hydrostatic pressure C) tissue hydrostatic pressure D) all of the above

The term automaticity refers to a cell's capability of:

A) responding promptly to electrical stimuli. B) generating an electrical impulse from one cell to another. C) generating an electrical impulse on their own. D) contraction or shortening an impulse.