A 35-year-old female patient has a large tumor in the carotid triangle, which must be removed to prevent it spreading through the fascial planes of the neck.  Describe the borders of the carotid triangle.    

An unconscious 48-year-old male soccer coach is admitted to the hospital. A CT scan reveals a tumor in his brain. When he regains consciousness, he is unable to abduct the right eye and complains of horizontal diplopia. Which of the following cranial nerves was most likley affected by the tumor to result in these symptoms? 

Which of the following structures are facial bones that contribute to the bony orbit? 

Your patient is a 24-year-old female diagnosed as having an ulcer in the first part of the duodenum.  The incision will be made superficial to the duodenum in the anterior abdominal wall.  Which region of the abdomen will the incision be made? 

A 59-year-old male complains of acute pain on his mandible.  He has an acute inflammation of the temporomandibular joint due to arthritis.  Which of the following muscles inserts on the mandibular condyle and functions in depressing and protruding the mandible?

A staff nurse has a TB skin test of 8-mm induration. A chest radiograph is negative, and the nurse has no symptoms of TB. The occupational health nurse will plan on teaching the staff nurse about the

A patient with an acute exacerbation of COPD has the following ABG analysis: pH 7.36, PaO2 58 mm Hg, PaCO2 55 mm Hg, HCO3 of 30 mm Hg and SaO2 95%. The nurse recognizes these values as evidence of

To teach the patient with COPD pursed lip breathing, the nurse instructs the patient to

A patient was admitted yesterday to the hospital for treatment of gun shot wound. The patient has also developed a productive cough and fever of 103.4 F. The patient is breathing on their own and doesn’t require mechanical ventilation. On assessment you note coarse crackles in the right lower lobe. A chest x-ray shows infiltrates with consolidation in the right lower lobe. Based on this specific patient scenario what type of pneumonia is this?

Which of the following processes generates the greatest amount of energy?