A patient is admitted to the hospital with medical history including generalized anxiety disorder. They have been anxious and have an elevated respiratory rate. What is the correct evaluation of the patient’s arterial blood gas (ABG)?  pH – 7.47 PCO2 – 30 PO2 – 90 HCO3 – 26

Which of the following pulmonary function test values is used to determine the severity of restrictive lung disease? 

A physical therapist is evaluating a patient with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III Heart Failure. Which of the following lifestyle recommendations is accurate and appropriate to discuss with this patient?

A patient just received a coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery x 2 and is now in the intensive care unit. They have been in bed for 2 days since surgery due to hemodynamic instability. They have now developed atelectasis per their most recent chest x-ray. Which of the following statements is true regarding atelectasis? 

A patient admitted to the hospital with very severe COPD, bronchiectasis, and diabetes was admitted to the ICU with hypoxic respiratory failure. An automated physical therapy consult is received to evaluate and treat the patient for mobility. Which of the following is the correct clinical assessment and decision based on the patient’s ABGs shown below?     PH/CO2/O2/HCO3  7.20/80/65/23 – Yesterday PM  7.06/99/75/24- Early this AM

All physical or mental impairments are disabilities.  The meaning of the term disability just is a physical or mental impairment.

An S2 heart sound indicates which of the following? 

When we look at the magnetic field in ancient igneous rocks on the Earth, we find that rocks of the same age have magnetic fields that point in different directions, like the top map below. Someday in the future, scientists would like to make similar measurements on Mars. If we were to measure the magnetic fields trapped in ancient igneous rocks on Mars, scientists expect to find that the magnetic field in rocks of the same age will all point the same direction, like the bottom map. What would cause them to be different? Attributions Images Strebe. Gall–Peters projection SW.jpg . (CC BY-SA 3.0). Via Wikimedia Commons.

The medical, social and biopsychosocial models of disability all agree that lack of family support and poverty are factors that cause people to be disabled.

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