You respond to the scene of a two-vehicle T-bone vehicle collision. The driver's side door is smashed shut and will not open. The front passenger door will open. The front passenger is stable and complaining of severe head and neck pain. You suspect that he has a potential spinal injury. The driver is unresponsive, in critical condition, and has gurgling respirations. You should extricate the

passenger by which technique?

A) Move the patient as quickly as possible so he can get to a hospital before paralysis sets in.
B) Take extra care to protect the passenger's neck with a KED board or short spine board because of the injury.
C) Carefully move the patient using full c-spine precautions.
D) Move the patient out of the car as quickly as possible, in the direction of the long axis of the body.

D