____________________ helps improve the patient's work of breathing by splinting open the alveoli.

Paramedics and other EMTs becoming affordable in rural communities and also helping to fill gaps in primary health care services is a concept of:

A) community paramedicine. B) creation of ad hoc databases. C) medical quality video. D) public safety answering points.

You are assessing a young male who was stabbed in the right lower chest. He is semiconscious and has labored breathing, collapsed jugular veins, and absent breath sounds on the right side of his chest. This patient MOST likely has a:

A: hemothorax. B: liver laceration. C: pneumothorax. D: ruptured spleen.