Upon your arrival on at a residential address for a patient with a previous traumatic brain injury, you are taken to the patient, who is ventilator dependent. The patient presents as unresponsive, cyanotic, and listless, and has a weak carotid pulse. Ventilator alarms are sounding. What is your immediate action?
A) Determine whether the vent is a negative or positive pressure type
B) Establish which type of alarm is sounding
C) Disconnect the ventilator and start positive pressure ventilation
D) Stop the ventilator and obtain breath sounds
C) Disconnect the ventilator and start positive pressure ventilation
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