A female lifeguard fell 10 feet from her chair and now has deformity, swelling, and ecchymosis to her right lower leg. The leg also is rotated medially. Another lifeguard has taken and is maintaining manual cervical spine motion restriction. As your partner conducts the primary assessment and finds no life threats or disturbances in her mental status, you should perform which action first?
A) Check the right foot for pulses and motor ability
B) Ready the traction splint for application
C) Align the leg in a neutral position
D) Manually stabilize the lower right leg
D) Manually stabilize the lower right leg
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A) red. B) green. C) black. D) yellow.
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If a congenital condition has been corrected, the coder should do which of the following?
A) Code the condition as if it still exists, because it was present at birth. B) Assign a personal history code to identify the history of the condition, but also assign a code from Chapter 17. C) Assign a personal history code to identify the history of the condition. D) None of the above.
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