Your patient is a 38-year-old male who has taken an overdose of several different medications and has consumed some household cleaning agents as well. On your arrival, the patient only responds to painful stimuli, and has a heart rate of 90 beats per minute with a respiratory rate of 12 breaths per minute. Medical control orders you to give the patient two to three glasses of milk to drink to
dilute the contents of the stomach. Which of the following actions should you do?
A) Assist the patient in drinking only one glass of milk to reduce the risk of aspiration.
B) Assist the patient in drinking as much of the two to three glasses of milk as he can.
C) Refuse the order and explain why.
D) Ask medical control if you can substitute water for the milk since water will not damage the lungs if aspirated.
C
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