You arrive in the parking lot of a retail store and find a middle-age male on the ground, unresponsive and with blood coming from a laceration to his forehead. Several shoppers have gathered around the patient and have covered him with a blanket. What should you do first?
A) Ask the bystanders if anyone knows the patient.
B) Place the patient on the stretcher and into the ambulance.
C) Go to the patient and begin providing care.
D) Call for law enforcement to secure the scene.
C
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The EMT is correctly assessing a child's apical pulse when he:
A) Carefully feels over both carotid arteries for at least 30 seconds B) Uses a stethoscope to listen to and count the femoral pulse rate C) Feels both carotid and brachial pulses for equality and rate D) Listens with a stethoscope to the child's left side of the chest
A 45-year-old woman was at a family reunion and fell off a trampoline. She impacted a picnic table with the left side of her lower rib cage and is very anxious and confused. Her airway is open, and her breathing is adequate. Her radial pulse is rapid and weak and her skin is cool and diaphoretic. Vital signs are: pulse 132, respirations 20, blood pressure 102/78 mmHg, and SpO2 at 97 percent. She
has ecchymosis to the left lower rib area as well as tenderness and instability. She also has a superficial abrasion to her forehead. Given these findings, you should suspect and treat her for what condition? A) Hypovolemic shock B) Hypoxia C) Closed head injury D) Spinal shock
MRI and CT images are similar in their ability to slice the body into images
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Evaluation and Management section is located at the beginning of CPT because these codes describe __________
a. encounters that have unusual circumstances b. health care rendered by nonphysicians only c. procedures performed by anesthesiologists d. services most frequently provided by physicians