You Are Responding to a Patient with a Behavioral Problem

question 1

Multiple Choice

You are responding to a patient with a behavioral problem. While en route, dispatch contacts you and states that there is a mental-health delegate at the scene and you will be transporting the patient to the local psych hospital for treatment of her bipolar disorder. On scene which one of the following patient behaviors should help confirm that the patient is suffering from bipolar disorder?

• A) Belief that family members are out to get her
• B) Panicked, anxious, and nervous behavior
• C) Threats of violence toward the EMTs
• D) Happy, excessively cheerful, and elated behavior

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Sample Median

The middle value of a sample data set arranged in ascending or descending order, used as a measure of central tendency.

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A statistical method that resamples a single dataset to create many simulated samples, used in assessing the precision of sample estimates.

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