After a 911 call hang-up, you enter a room and see an apparently unresponsive female patient with a bag over her head. A person in the neighboring apartment tells you that she said that she suffers from depression and made a threat to kill herself with a suicide bag this morning. Your immediate action would be to:
A) remove the bag.
B) leave the room.
C) move the patient.
D) manual in-line spinal immobilization.
B
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A) unconscious. B) obtunded. C) lethargic. D) unresponsive.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)