A nuclear reactor is equipped with two independent automatic shutdown systems to shut down the reactor when the core temperature reaches the danger level. Neither system is perfect. System A shuts down the reactor 90% of the time when the danger level is reached. System B does so 80% of the time. The reactor is shut down if either system works.

Now simulate 100 trials of the reactor's response to an emergency of this kind. Estimate the probability that it will shut down. This probability is higher than the probability that either system working alone will shut down the reactor.

The temperature T (in degrees Fahrenheit) of a patient t hours after arriving at the emergency room of a hospital at 10:00 P.M. is given by $T(t)=98.6+4 \cos \frac{\pi t}{36}, \quad 0 \leq t \leq 18$. Find the patient’s temperature at (a) 10:00 P.M., (b) 4:00 A.M., and (c) 10:00 A.M. (d) At what time do you expect the patient’s temperature to return to normal? Explain your reasoning.

Five-year-old Amy wakes her parents up at 3 AM crying and complaining of a sore neck, a severe headache, and feeling sick to her stomach. She has a temperature of $40^{\circ} \mathrm{C}$ $\left(104^{\circ} \mathrm{F}\right)$ and hides her eyes, saying that the lights are too bright. The emergency physician suspects meningitis and performs a lumbar tap. Using your knowledge of neuroanatomy, explain into which space and at what level of the vertebral column the needle will be inserted to perform this test. Which fluid is being obtained and why?

A driver makes an emergency stop and inadvertently locks up the brakes of the car, which skids to a stop on dry concrete. Consider the effect of heavy rain on this scenario. Using the values in Table 1, determine how much farther the car would skid (expressed as a percentage of the dry-weather skid) if the concrete were wet instead. What does this question imply about driving safely?

Table 1 Coeffi cients of Kinetic Friction for Rubber on Concrete

J.R. is a $28$-year-old man who was doing home repairs. He fell from the top of a $6$-foot stepladder, striking his head on a large rock. He experienced a momentary loss of consciousness. By the time his neighbor got to him, he was conscious but bleeding profusely from a laceration over the right temporal area. The neighbor drove him to the emergency department of your hospital. As the nurse, you immediately apply a cervical collar, lay him on a stretcher, and take J.R. to a treatment room.

Identify at least five signs and symptoms of increased ICP.

The waiting time until service at a hospital emergency department is modeled with the pdf $f (x) = \frac{1}{9} x \quad 0<x<3$ hours and $f (x) = \frac{2}{3}-\frac{1}{9} x \quad 3<x<6.$ Determine the following: (a) Probability the wait is less than 4 hours (b) Probability the wait is more than 5 hours (c) Probability the wait is less than or equal to 30 minutes (d) Waiting time that is exceeded by only 10% of patients (e) Mean waiting time

An 8-year-old child is being admitted to the hospital from the emergency department with an injury from falling off her bicycle. Which of the following will most help her adjust to the hospital?

1. Explain hospital routines such as mealtimes to her.
2. Use terms such as “honey” and “dear” to show a caring attitude.
3. Explain when her parents can visit and why siblings cannot come to see her.
4. Since she is young, orient her parents to her room and hospital facility.

While playing on her swing set, 10-year-old Rebecca falls and breaks her right leg. At the emergency room, the doctor tells her parents that the proximal end of the tibia where the epiphysis meets the diaphysis is fractured. The fracture is properly set and eventually heals. During a routine physical when she is 18, Rebecca learns that her right leg is 2.54 cm (1 in.) shorter than her left. What might account for this difference?

A plane leaves Seattle, flies $85 \mathrm{mi}$ at $22^{\circ}$ north of east, and then changes direction to $48^{\circ}$ south of east. After flying at $115 \mathrm{mi}$ in this new direction, the pilot must make an emergency landing on a field. The Seattle airport facility dispatches a rescue crew.
($a$) In what direction and how far should the crew fly to go directly to the field? Use components to solve this problem.
($b$) Check the reasonableness of your answer with a careful graphical sum.

J.R. is a $28$-year-old man who was doing home repairs. He fell from the top of a $6$-foot stepladder, striking his head on a large rock. He experienced a momentary loss of consciousness. By the time his neighbor got to him, he was conscious but bleeding profusely from a laceration over the right temporal area. The neighbor drove him to the emergency department of your hospital. As the nurse, you immediately apply a cervical collar, lay him on a stretcher, and take J.R. to a treatment room.

Differentiate between a primary and secondary head injury.

Ambulance response time. Ambulance response time is measured as the time (in minutes) between the initial call to emergency medical services (EMS) and when thepatient is reached by ambulance. Geographical Analysis (Vol. 41, 2009) investigated the characteristics of ambulance response time for EMS calls in Edmonton, Alberta. For a particular EMS station (call it Station A), ambulance response time is known to be normally distributed with $\mu=7.5$ minutes and $\sigma=2.5$ minutes. A randomly selected EMS call in Edmonton has an ambulance response time of 2 minutes. Is it likely that this call was serviced by Station A? Explain.

Match each type of disease with the type of disease-causing agent that causes it. _ African sleeping sickness A. virus B. bacterium C. protist D. parasitic worm E. fungus

As a young design engineer you are asked to design an emergency braking parachute system for use with a military aircraft of mass 9500 kg. The plane lands at 350 km/hr, and the parachute system alone must slow the airplane to 100 km/hr in less than 1200 m. Find the minimum diameter required for a single parachute, and for three noninterfering parachutes. Plot the airplane speed versus distance and versus time. What is the maximum “g-force” experienced?

A recently graduated mechanical engineer wants to build a reserve fund as a safety net to pay his expenses in the unlikely event that an unexpected emergency arises. His aim is to have $45,000 developed over the next 3 years, with the proviso that the amount must have the same purchasing power as$45,000 today. If the expected market rate on investments is 8% per year and inflation is averaging 2% per year, find the annual amount necessary to meet his goal.