Three-year-old C.E. is admitted to the emergency department (ED) fast track clinic. Her mother tells the nurse that C.E. has had a low-grade fever for 2 days and is complaining of ear pain and a sore throat. C.E.'s mother states that C.E.'s appetite has been "off;' but she has been drinking and using the bathroom as usual. As you get C.E. settled in the exam room, you suspect C.E may have otitis media (OM).
Place an arrow where you suspect fluid would be found.

Three-year-old C.E. is admitted to the Emergency Department (ED) fast track clinic. Her mother tells the nurse that C.E. has had a low-grade fever for $2$ days and is complaining of ear pain and a sore throat. Mrs. E. states that C.E.'s appetite has been “off,” but she has been drinking and using the bathroom as usual.

How would the nurse monitor C.E. for pain?

Oxygen masks for producing $\mathrm{O}_2$ in emergency situations contain potassium superoxide $\left(\mathrm{KO}_2\right)$. It reacts according to this equation:

$$4\mathrm{~KO}_2+2\mathrm{~H}_2 \mathrm{O}+4\mathrm{~CO}_2\longrightarrow 4\mathrm{~KHCO}_3+3\mathrm{~O}_2$$

(a) If a person wearing such a mask exhales $0.85 \mathrm{~g}$ of $\mathrm{CO}_2$ every minute, how many moles of $\mathrm{KO}_2$ are consumed in $10.0$ minutes?
(b) How many grams of oxygen are produced in $1.0$ hour?

(a) A light-rail commuter train accelerates at a rate of 1.35 m/s². How long does it take to reach its top speed of 80.0 km/h, starting from rest? (b) The same train ordinarily decelerates at a rate of 1.65 m/s². How long does it take to come to a stop from its top speed? (c) In emergencies, the train can decelerate more rapidly, coming to rest from 80.0 km/h in 8.30 s. What is its emergency acceleration in meters per second squared?

Consider a simple elevator design in which a 15,000 kg car A is connected to a 12,000 kg counterweight B. Suppose that a failure of the drive system occurs (the failure does not affect the rope connecting A and B) when the car is at rest and 50 m above its buffer, causing the elevator car to fall. Model the car and the counterweight as particles and the cord as massless and inextensible, and model the action of the emergency brakes using a Coulomb friction model with kinetic friction coefficient $\mu \mathrm{k}=0.5$ and a normal force equal to 35% of the car’s weight. Determine the speed with which the car impacts the buffer.

Large stadiums rely on backup generators to provide electricity in the event of a power failure. Assume that emergency backup generators fail 22% of the times when they are needed (based on data from Arshad Mansoor, senior vice president with the Electric Power Research Institute). A stadium has three backup generators so that power is available if at least one of them works in a power failure. Find the probability of having at least one of the backup generators working given that a power failure has occurred. Does the result appear to be adequate for the stadium's needs?

Heart failure is due to either natural occurrences (87%) or outside factors (13%). Outside factors are related to induced substances or foreign objects. Natural occurrences are caused by arterial blockage, disease, and infection. Suppose that 20 patients will visit an emergency room with heart failure. Assume that causes of heart failure between individuals are independent. (a) What is the probability that three individuals have conditions caused by outside factors? (b) What is the probability that three or more individuals have conditions caused by outside factors? (c) What are the mean and standard deviation of the number of individuals with conditions caused by outside factors?

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.

Assume that people and businesses have reasonable expectations. Explain how the events listed below will affect aggregate output and the price level. a. The Fed reduces the required reserve ratio unexpectedly. b. Congress passes a tax-cut bill that takes effect in a year and lasts ten years. c. The Fed announces a reduction in the money supply. d. OPEC abruptly reduces oil production by half. e. The government passes an unannounced emergency defence spending bill, authorising a $500 billion increase in funding immediately.

An emergency cell phone charger requires you to turn a small crank in order to create the energy needed to recharge the phone’s battery. If you turn the crank 120 times per minute, the total number r of revolutions that you turn the crank is given by r = 120t where t is the time (in minutes) spent turning the crank. a. Graph the function and identify its domain and range. b. Identify the domain and range if you stop turning the crank after 4 minutes. Explain how this affects the appearance of the graph.

T.W. is a 22-year-old man who fell SO feet from a chairlift while skiing and landed on hard-packed snow. He is now at the emergency department (ED) with a suspected TS-T6 fracture with paraplegia.
Insert Foley catheter
ECG monitoring
Immobilize the cervical spine
Oxygen at 4 L per nasal cannula
Initiate two large bore IVs
Neurologic assessment every hour
Apply warming blankets as needed
What other interventions would likely be done by the ED nurse?

Just an instant before reaching the very bottom of a semicircular section of a roller coaster ride, the automatic emergency brake inadvertently goes on. Assume the car has a total mass of 750 kg, the radius of that section of the track is 55.0 m, and the car entered the bottom after descending vertically (from rest) 25.0 m on a frictionless straight incline. If the braking force is a steady 1700 N, determine (a) the car's centripetal acceleration (including direction), (b) the normal force of the track on the car, (c) the tangential acceleration of the car (including direction), and (d) the total acceleration of the car.

Study of why EMS workers leave the job. A study of fulltime emergency medical service (EMS) workers published in the Journal of Allied Health (Fall 2011) found that only about 3% leave their job in order to retire. (See Exercise $3.45$, p. 158.) Assume that the true proportion of all fulltime EMS workers who leave their job in order to retire is $p=.03$. In a random sample of 1,000 full-time EMS workers, let $\hat{p}$ represent the proportion who leave their job in order to retire. Compute $P(\hat{p}<.05)$. Interpret this result.

Sean and Mason run out of gas while fishing from their boat in the bay. They set off an emergency flare with an initial vertical velocity of 30 meters per second. The height of the flare in meters can be modeled by $h(t)=-5 t^2+30 t$, where t represents the number of seconds after launch.

Sean wants to know how high the flare will reach above the surface of the water.

a. Write the function in vertex form, factoring so the coefficient of $t^2$ is 1 .

b. Complete the square using the vertex form of the function.

c. How high will the flare reach?