You have been dispatched to assist a BLS unit on the scene of a crash approximately 10 miles outside town. The BLS crew reports that they have a 55-year-old female involved in a single-vehicle crash. Her blood pressure is 90/60, her heart rate 120, and her respiratory rate 20. She has multiple significant injuries. You are 15 minutes by ground from a Level 1 trauma center. That center does have a
helicopter. What is your best action?
A) Call for the helicopter and wait for it to arrive. Provide aggressive treatment until then.
B) Call for the helicopter to meet you halfway.
C) Do not call for the helicopter, because by the time it would arrive you could almost be at the hospital.
D) Call medical control and ask the trauma doctor what you should do.
C
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