While you are placing a 52-year-old female patient, whose complaint is a headache, on the stretcher, she begins to seize. Your immediate action would be to:
A) Quickly move her to the ambulance for rapid transport
B) Perform a jaw-thrust maneuver and insert an oropharyngeal airway
C) Raise the side rails and do not apply the straps very tightly
D) Remove the patient from the stretcher and place her on the ground
C) Raise the side rails and do not apply the straps very tightly
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