You have been dispatched to a pool party for a 19-year-old male with shoulder pain. He states that he dove off the diving board and hit the bottom of the pool with his right shoulder and back. Although there is alcohol at the party, he denies drinking. The patient is alert and oriented and has obvious redness and abrasions to his right shoulder, neck, and back. He complains of neck pain and tingling in his right arm, but denies any other discomfort to any other part of the body. Your next action would be to:
A) Measure and apply a cervical collar
B) Establish manual spine motion restriction
C) Provide supplemental oxygen
D) Perform the secondary assessment
B) Establish manual spine motion restriction
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The cart that is designed to hold the air-water syringe, the saliva ejector, and the HVE is the ____________
a. operator's b. assistant's c. both a and b d. neither a nor b
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
The 2010 Ethics Code contains a Preamble and a set of five General Principles.
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A. incident B. random C. prevalence D. stratified
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