During your rapid assessment of a semiconscious 44-year-old female with blunt thoracic trauma, you detect an area on the left anterior chest that bulges during exhalation. Your partner is assisting her ventilations with a bag-mask device and 100% oxygen. You should:
A. advise your partner to increase the rate and depth of ventilations.
B. stabilize the chest wall deformity and continue your assessment.
C. call for a paramedic crew to perform a needle chest decompression.
D. place a sandbag over the deformed area and auscultate breath sounds.
Answer: B. stabilize the chest wall deformity and continue your assessment.
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