Read the Following Excerpt from a Patient's Health Record: Objective

question 25

Multiple Choice

Read the following excerpt from a patient's health record: Objective
Temp: 98.6; HR 60; RR: 16; BP 102/62; Wt: 176.
General: No acute distress. Alert and oriented.
HEENT: PERRLA. No conjunctival injection. Mucous membranes moist and pink. TMs normal.
Neck: Postop incision site is clean, dry and intact. No erythema induration or discharge. No goiter.
Resp: CTA. w/o wheezes, rales, or rhonchi.
CV: RRR without murmur.
Gen: Soft, nontender, nondistended.
Ext: No c/c/e. Labs: Mildly elevated TSH and low T4. Calcium-normal.
According to the patient's labs, he has:

• A) mildly elevated triiodothyronine and low thyroxin.
• B) mildly elevated thyrotropin and low triiodothyronine.
• C) mildly elevated thyrotropin and low thyroxin.
• D) mildly elevated thyroxin and low triiodothyronine.
• E) mildly elevated thyroxin and low thyrotropin.

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