A patient has been shot in the abdomen. Assessment reveals that the bullet entered the body in the right upper quadrant and exited the lower right back. Given this finding, the EMT should assume which solid organs may have been injured?

A) Liver and gallbladder
B) Liver, gallbladder, and right kidney
C) Liver, gallbladder, right kidney, and small intestine
D) Liver, right kidney, and pancreas


D) Liver, right kidney, and pancreas

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