A patient crashed his motorcycle and received severe facial injuries. He is lying on his back, and you can hear gurgling noises when he breathes. As your partner manually stabilizes the patient's spine, which one of the following should you do first?
A) Open the airway with a jaw thrust and then suction.
B) Ventilate with a bag-valve-mask device.
C) Apply a nonrebreather mask and then suction his airway.
D) Perform a head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver and insert an oropharyngeal airway.
A
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Which of the following is a manifestation of orthostatic hypotension?
A) Your patient's pulse is 76 when he is supine but 88 when he sits up. B) Your patient's blood pressure is 142/90 when she is supine but 116/88 when she sits up. C) Your patient's blood pressure is 150/100 when he is supine but 134/90 when he sits up. D) Your patient's pulse is 80 when she is supine but 96 when she sits up.
In Volume 2, a(n) __________ is a term indented beneath a main term that provides greater specificity about the diagnosis
Fill in the blank with correct word.
A review of a patient's past experiences with illnesses, injuries, and treatments is called a social history
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score that requires intracranial pressure monitoring?
a. Less than 8 b. Less than 9 c. Less than 10 d. Less than 11