You and your partner are preparing to extricate a patient from a car using a vest-type short spine immobilization device. After ensuring that in-line manual spinal stabilization is being maintained, your next instruction should be:
A) "Let's get the cervical collar applied before we place the vest."
B) "Let's turn the patient toward the door of the car before applying the vest."
C) "Let's check his motor, sensory, and pulses in the arms and legs."
D) "Let's place the vest on the backboard and carefully move him from the car onto it."
C
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What will be an ideal response?
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A less than optimal PA axial knee projection (Holmblad method) demonstrating the medial and lateral aspects of the intercondylar fossa without superimposition
a. will also demonstrate the tibia without fibular head superimposition if the heel was rotated medially. b. will also demonstrate a laterally situated patella if the heel was rotated laterally. c. was obtained because the knee was underflexed. d. was obtained because the femur was positioned vertically.