A29-year-old female client in labor has just received epidural anesthesia. before the procedure her blood pressure was 120/78 and her pulse was 60 bpm. now her blood pressure is 100/60 and her pulse is 80 bpm. she reports a metallic taste in her mouth, hears a ringing in her ears, and appears confused.
what is this client most likely experiencing?

The client is experiencing systemic toxicity as a result of the local anesthesia.

Explanation:

There are several side effects associated with injecting local anesthesia, which varies from person to person. However, symptoms of mild toxicity from local anesthesia include a ringing in the ears, a metallic taste in the mouth, and perioral numbness. Thus the patient is just experiencing systemic toxicity from the local anesthesia.

to prevent people from getting the ebola virus, countries around the world paid to doctors develop a new vaccine. now that the vaccine has been made, doctors will need to experiment on a large number of people to find out if it works safely.

what is the greatest limitation that scientists are dealing with as they try to figure out how to experiment with the ebola vaccine?

meditation is a practice of sitting still and quiet for minutes or even hours. it has been practiced for thousands of years and is even a part of religious practices for some people. carefully controlled, repeated measurements of brain activity have shown that meditation does increase certain chemicals in the brain and even grows the part of the brain that people connect with their current surroundings and activities.

are claims about the effects of meditation most likely scientific or pseudoscientific?

not pseudoscientific, because people have made claims about it but scientific observations have not been made