If a patient presents with an acute or chronic illness that poses a threat to life or body function and requires emergency surgery, the level of risk involved with the medical decision making would be considered:

You are called to a nursing home for an 85-year-old patient complaining of abdominal pain. The patient has a history of dementia and cannot describe the pain to you. The nurse states the patient has n vomiting dark coffee ground emesis for about an hour. His blood pressure is 90/40, pulse 100, and respiratory rate of 24. Aside from the airway, what is your greatest concern?

A) The patient will have a stroke. B) The patient will have a myocardial infarction. C) The patient will go into hypovolemic shock. D) The patient will become combative.

Where is the central ray directed for the lateral facial bones?

mid maxilla outer canthus at the level of the EAM zygoma