If a wound worsens after 2 weeks of treatment, what should you do?  

You’re a home health PT evaluating Mrs. T, who has a history of right breast cancer with resection over a year ago. She now reports right UE edema. She was recently hospitalized for acute CHF, treated with Lasix, and has returned home to her third-floor walk-up apartment (no elevator). She lives alone with her cat, owns no DME, and relies on the bus for errands. Mrs. T’s symptoms are indicative of the beginning stages of:  

You’re evaluating Mrs. M at home s/p right THR. PMH: DM, CKD, PVD, and 35-year smoking history. She has a shallow, irregular wound on her left shin with moderate serosanguinous drainage, macerated periwound, and slough at 10:00. Wound size: 10 × 6 × 0.6 cm. L LE circumference is 30 cm at the malleolus vs. 20 cm on the right. She’s been unable to dress the wound since discharge and lives alone. She uses a RW and tub bench, has 3 entry steps with R handrail, no interior stairs, and has not showered since leaving the hospital. Key areas to assess:

Policy and procedures in your center require that you obtain consent prior to treatment.  You want to start electrical stimulation on a patient’s wound and the patient has dementia.  You have not been able to get a hold of the POA (Power of Attorney).  You should:

Why does the peak onset of type 1 diabetes mellitus occur at age 12?

The legal doctrine meaning “the thing speaks for itself” is called

After reading The Typists by Murray Schisgal, how would you define this play? What genre does it belong in? If you were to direct this on the stage, how would you do it?

You are treating a patient with moderate external bleeding from a laceration. She takes warfarin, aspirin, heparin, beta blockers, an ACE inhibitor and prednisone. Which of her medications will MOST likely interfere with the inflammatory response to her injury?

Why should you provide fluids to increase the blood pressure of a trauma patient with a BP of 60/40 and a weak carotid pulse?

You have applied a pressure dressing and bandage to an extremity too tightly. You should expect which of the following complications?