When a physician or other qualified healthcare professional performs counseling for the reduction of one or more risk factors, which of the following categories of service is being performed?
a. Care plan oversight services
b. Case management services
c. Preventive medicine services
d. Non–face-to-face physician services
c) Preventive medicine services
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Medical direction has advised you to place a patient who is obese and extremely short of breath in a supine position. Knowing that doing so will cause the patient to become more short of breath, your best action would be to:
A) explain your concern to the physician and ask for clarification. B) place the patient in the supine position and expedite transport. C) contact a different hospital and transport the patient there. D) ask your partner what he would do.
You are on the scene of a 3-year-old patient who is in respiratory distress. The mother states that the patient has been making a barking cough for the past 24 hours. The child is very scared and upset. He is crying inconsolably. The patient has tachypnea, but his vital signs are normal otherwise. He is leaning forward in the tripod position and is drooling profusely. What condition do you
suspect? A) Croup B) Child abuse C) Strep throat D) Epiglottitis