Medical control has ordered you to administer one tube of oral glucose to your patient suspected of having hypoglycemia. Immediately after receiving this order, you should
A. document the order on the prehospital care report
B. administer the medication and reassess the patient
C. ask medical control to repeat the order word for word
D. repeat the order back to medical control word for word
Answer: D. repeat the order back to medical control word for word
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