The insurance billing specialist must have excellent data entry skills to ensure that the CMS-1500 claim form is completed according to insurance carrier guidelines.

A frantic mother called 911 because she found her 18-month-old daughter playing with a bottle of drain cleaner. When assessing this patient, which of the following provides the strongest evidence that the child did indeed ingest some of the liquid?

A) Increased heart rate B) Garbled speech C) Continual crying D) Burns to her mouth

You have arrived on the scene of an explosion in a warehouse used to store fertilizers. A paramedic, who has already triaged the nine patients involved, directs you to a young man sitting under a tree. The man states that he is having excruciating ear pain. The primary assessment and secondary assessment reveal no obvious injuries. Given this presentation, the AEMT would recognize which of the

following? A) Inner ear damage caused by the noise of the explosion B) Ear damage caused by exposure to superheated air C) Secondary blast injury to the inner ear D) Primary phase blast injury to the inner ear