A small car and tanker truck loaded with gasoline have collided. The car is lodged under the tanker, from which gasoline is leaking from a ruptured valve. The car engine is smoking and the threat of fire and explosion is great. Assessment reveals your patient to be unresponsive with a patent airway, but breathing with difficulty at 8 times a minute. In caring for this patient, your immediate
action should be to:
A) promptly open the airway and suction prior to moving the patient.
B) rapidly extricate the patient and provide care away from the wreckage.
C) quickly obtain vital signs and then extricate the patient from the car.
D) immediately start positive pressure ventilation and place a vest immobilization device for extrication.
B
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Just before the end of their shift, EMTs transported a young male who bystanders state "passed out" and then had a seizure. Now, an hour later, the patient has been stabilized and the physician asks the nurse if she knows what the seizure looked like. To easily answer this question, she would:
A) contact and question the bystanders. B) call the EMTs at home. C) question the patient. D) check the prehospital care report.