Any unresponsive trauma patient should be assumed to have:

a) an accompanying spinal injury.
b) a history of diabetes mellitus.
c) a severe intracranial hemorrhage.
d) internal bleeding in the abdomen.


Ans: a) an accompanying spinal injury.

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