Free BCEN BCEN-CEN Exam Questions

How does shock usually progress?

A 65yearold man presents to the emergency department with complaint of painless visual disturbances including loss of central vision, photopsia, "floaters" and shadows in his vision. The most important intervention for this patient is to:

EMS calls with a 23yearold male patient who was just in a three car MVC and had driver side impact. They report the patient's air bags did not deploy. The patient was not wearing his seatbelt. The patient arrives to the ER and during the exam you auscultate decreased breath sounds on the right side, bowel sounds in the middle of the chest and that the patient is dyspneic. The findings are consistent with:

If shock is left untreated, the body's natural compensatory mechanisms will begin to fail, causing decreased blood flow. Which of the following blood tests can one obtain to evaluate for organ injury?

EMS calls with a possible stroke alert patient. As the patient has developed right sided facial paralysis. Upon arrival you examine the patient and observe the he is unable to blink his right eye, nor raise the eye brows. The symptoms suggest that the patient has: