You are dispatched to a local mall and are met by bystanders who state that the patient was talking to a customer representative and "passed out." You find an alert and oriented 55-year-old female lying supine on the tile floor. The patient tells you that the back of her head is hurting. Which one of the following actions should you perform first?
A) Open her airway with a jaw-thrust.
B) Obtain a full set of vital signs.
C) Take manual in-line spinal stabilization.
D) Assess the back of the patient's head for injury.
C
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A) dural folds. B) dorna matter. C) meninges. D) CNS white matter.
An OT practitioner is evaluating the ROM of a client with an acute full thickness burn to the dorsum of the hand. The therapist is concerned about the integrity of the extensor tendons and should take which of the following actions?
A. Measure passive composite finger flexion. B. Measure active composite finger flexion. C. Measure metacarpophalangeal (MP) flexion with the interphalangeal joints in extension. D. Refrain from performing all hand joint measurements until the burn has healed.