You are on the scene of a 34-year-old man who is breathing but not awake. After determining that he does NOT respond to verbal stimuli, your next action would be to:

A) place him on a backboard and perform a secondary assessment en route to the hospital.
B) open his airway.
C) apply a painful stimuli.
D) apply manual cervical spine immobilization.


Answer: C

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