A patient suffering from hypovolemic shock due to internal hemorrhage will require a/an _________________ _________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
blood transfusion
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You and your partner are en route to a motor vehicle crash involving a tanker truck on a rural road. Dispatch informs you that fluid is leaking from the truck, that there are several bystanders passed out on the ground near the cab of the truck, and that a caller has reported the code that appears on a placard attached to the tanker truck. You should:
A) consult the Emergency Response Guidebook. B) remove the bystanders from the scene. C) park downwind from the tanker truck. D) park about 50 feet from the truck.
Your patient is a motorcyclist who was ejected after striking a guard rail. The patient is unresponsive to painful stimuli and is breathing shallowly six to eight times per minute. Which of the following should you do first?
A) Apply a nonrebreather mask with an oxygen flow rate of 15 lpm. B) Use a bag-valve mask with supplemental oxygen. C) Perform a rapid trauma assessment. D) Apply a cervical collar.