Answer: A and D
Explanation: In old age, dehydration and compression of the disc between the vertebrae in the spine causes reduction in height. The loss of bone density (osteoporosis) can also make the spine to become more curved, and make the vertebrae to collapse due to thinning that is caused by overall decrease in body water. This can be the reason for the reduction in height of the patient.
Answer:
90%
Explanation:
When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban populations, the indigenous people of the Americas were effectively doomed. They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.
Answer:
a. True
Explanation:
Pancreatitis, a disease which involves the inflammation of the pancreas. Pancreatic damage can happen when digestive enzymes become activated before being released into small intestine and the digestive enzymes attack pancreas.
<u>Trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen and procarboxypepdidase are precursor forms of trypsin, chymotrypsin and carboxypepdidase. </u>
<u>If they are prematurely activated, they will make these enzymes which can degrade/ digest the pancreatic proteins.</u>
The main<u> </u><u>difference</u><u> between a</u><u> TIA</u> (transient ischemic attack) <u>and </u><u>RIND</u> (Reversible ischemic neurologic deficit) is the time duration taken for reversal of symptoms.
Explanation:
The symptoms of TIA can last for about 24 hours and settle within a day. RIND lasts for more than 24 hours and clears within a week or few weeks. This means that RIND is actually a mini version of TIA.
<u>Perspective of the paramedic:</u>
Since both the conditions exhibits acute mini stroke-like conditions with reversal of symptoms, the perspective of the paramedic will be the same for both TIA and RIND.
The paramedics in the field should conduct GCS and FAST tests, detect stroke and its damage caused, should obtain other basic information at the field, and administer basic neuroprotective treatment modalities to save the patient from further damage.
<u>In the hospital,</u> for both TIA and RIND, the primary stroke management is to restore the blood supply to the brain through anticlotting agents like tPA injections or endovascular procedures
. The treatment can vary later according to the severity of the stroke.
D. What site to obtain the temperatures
Explanation:
An individual care plan of a patient by a nurse or a resident will contain all the basic information necessary to provide an individualized care plan for that patient.
Patient’s vital signs including body temperature are assessed on a routine basis and recorded in the nursing/resident’s care plan.
In an individual nursing/resident’s care plan, the temperature will mostly be recorded like Temperature: 101.40F (orally). This clearly mentions the recorded value and site of recording the temperature.
Recording the temperature accurately, precisely, consistently and diligently is very important because it is a vital parameter which is used to decide treatment modalities.
Hence, the site and method of measurement should be selected appropriately and used consistently and recorded in the nursing care plan to ensure measurement accuracy and patient’s safety.
