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Specimen collection, for arterial blood gases 114–115, 116b

Speculum examination, of internal genitalia 166
Speech

in differentiating delirium, depression, and dementia 250t

in mental status exam 151
rehabilitation following laryngectomy 549b

Speech therapist 79
Spider bites 511

Spikes, of pacemakers 710
Spina bifida occulta 472

Spinal accessory nerve 153, 163–164t

Spinal block, for labor and birth 311
Spinal cord
anatomy and physiology of 830–831

compression with cancer 555, 1031

transection 1051
Spinal cord injuries 1050–1051

assessment of 1052
autonomic dysreflexia in 1056b

cervical 1052
interventions for 1053

lumbar 1052

medications for 1055
positioning clients with 213

sacral 1052
spinal and neurogenic shock in 1052b, 1053

surgical interventions for 1055
syndromes in incomplete injury 1051–1052, 1051f

thoracic 1052
transection of cord in 1051

vertebrae involved in 1051
Spinal fusion 1055

Spinal nerves 831

Spinal shock 1052b, 1053

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