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Medical Terminology for Health Professions 8th Edition by Ann Ehrlich ,Carol Schroeder,Laura Ehrlich ,Katrina Schroeder
Edition 8ISBN: 978-1305634350Medical Terminology for Health Professions 8th Edition by Ann Ehrlich ,Carol Schroeder,Laura Ehrlich ,Katrina Schroeder
Edition 8ISBN: 978-1305634350 Exercise 3
The following story and questions are designed to stimulate critical thinking through class discussion or as a brief essay response. There are no right or wrong answers to these questions.
Randi Marchant, a 42-year-old waitress, was vacuuming the family room when she felt that painful squeezing in her chest again. Third time today, but this one really hurt. She sat down to catch her breath and stubbed out the cigarette she had left smoldering in the half-filled ashtray by the couch. Randi's husband, Jimmy, and stepdaughter Melonie had pestered her until she finally had taken time off work to see her doctor. Dr. Harris found that her blood pressure was 158/88-probably owing to the noon rush stress at work, she rationalized. At least her cholesterol test was only 30 points above average this time. It had been slowly coming down, even though she cheated on her diet.
Another wave of pain tightened its icy fingers around her heart, and the pain moved up into both sides of her jaw. Randi thought, "Probably just a little heartburn. Since the pain doesn't radiate down my left arm, it couldn't be my heart, could it?"
"Don't think about the pain," she told herself. "Think of something else. Melonie's prom dress needs altering." Randi fell to the floor, clutching her chest, just as Melonie walked in. She saw her stepmother slumped on the floor and screamed, "Oh my God! Help, somebody, help!"
What can Melonie do immediately to try to save Randi's life?
Randi Marchant, a 42-year-old waitress, was vacuuming the family room when she felt that painful squeezing in her chest again. Third time today, but this one really hurt. She sat down to catch her breath and stubbed out the cigarette she had left smoldering in the half-filled ashtray by the couch. Randi's husband, Jimmy, and stepdaughter Melonie had pestered her until she finally had taken time off work to see her doctor. Dr. Harris found that her blood pressure was 158/88-probably owing to the noon rush stress at work, she rationalized. At least her cholesterol test was only 30 points above average this time. It had been slowly coming down, even though she cheated on her diet.
Another wave of pain tightened its icy fingers around her heart, and the pain moved up into both sides of her jaw. Randi thought, "Probably just a little heartburn. Since the pain doesn't radiate down my left arm, it couldn't be my heart, could it?"
"Don't think about the pain," she told herself. "Think of something else. Melonie's prom dress needs altering." Randi fell to the floor, clutching her chest, just as Melonie walked in. She saw her stepmother slumped on the floor and screamed, "Oh my God! Help, somebody, help!"
What can Melonie do immediately to try to save Randi's life?
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Medical Terminology for Health Professions 8th Edition by Ann Ehrlich ,Carol Schroeder,Laura Ehrlich ,Katrina Schroeder
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