You are transporting a 31-year-old male who was severely injured in a motor vehicle collision. He is unresponsive and being ventilated by your partner with a bag-valve mask. How will you conduct the rapid secondary assessment on this patient?
A) Perform a head-to-toe exam.
B) Focus on the chest and abdomen.
C) Palpate the body but do not auscultate.
D) Focus on the head and torso.
A
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a. Provide partial benefits toward the Medicare deductible. b. Provide regular group benefits for services or items covered by the group plan but not covered by Medicare. c. Provide partial benefits toward coinsurance amounts. d. Provide full benefits.
You are transporting an 18-year-old male who has been injured in a motor-vehicle collision. He has a decreased level of consciousness and has suffered injuries to his head, chest, and lower right leg. When you are conducting the reassessment of the patient's head and neck, which one of the following is appropriate?
A) Maintaining an airway with the head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver B) Placing a sterile dressing in the right ear, which is oozing blood C) Taking time to carefully re-palpate the face and scalp D) Carefully removing the cervical collar to reassess the back of the neck
What are two of the greatest threats to a patent airway?
a. laryngospasm and epiglottis relaxation b. mucous and oropharyngeal spasm c. vomiting and aspiration d. tracheal stenosis and burns
Concurrent data collection-the process of converting the paper record into a computerized abstract of the same-would be performed after a patient was discharged.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)