NREMT Advanced EMT

Category - Medical Knowledge

William, your patient, cannot remember anything that happened in the last five years. What type of memory does William have?
  1. Immediate
  2. Recent
  3. Remote
  4. Distant
Explanation
Answer - C - A patient who cannot recall memory over the last five years has remote memory. Memory is divided into three grades. Immediate memory is the ability to recall the names of several unrelated objects and is similar to digit span. Recent memory is the ability to recall something that happened earlier that day. Remote memory is the ability to recall events from the past.
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