A teenage female has been removed from a pool. Your assessment reveals her to be responsive to painful stimuli with decorticate posturing. Her airway has water in it, and she appears to be vomiting water. Breathing is agonal at 8 breaths per minute; you hear a gurgling noise with each attempt at breathing. The patient's pulse is weak and slow. What should be the priority treatment you would render next?
A) Place a nasopharyngeal airway
B) Administer abdominal thrusts
C) Start positive pressure ventilation
D) Suction water from the airway
D) Suction water from the airway
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