A patient crashed his motorcycle and received severe facial injuries. He is lying on his back, and you can hear gurgling noises when he breathes. As your partner manually stabilizes the patient's spine, which one of the following should you do first?
A) Open the airway with a jaw thrust and then suction.
B) Ventilate with a bag-valve-mask device.
C) Apply a nonrebreather mask and then suction his airway.
D) Perform a head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver and insert an oropharyngeal airway.
A
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When assessing an adult trauma patient's circulation status during the primary assessment, the EMT's assessment should include:
A) Carotid pulse, capillary refill, blood pressure, and skin color B) Radial and/or carotid pulse, skin characteristics, and presence of external bleeding C) Skin color, pulse rate, blood pressure, and skin temperature D) Pulse rate, blood pressure, capillary refill, and skin condition