Most patients you encounter will be alert and obviously have an open airway. An adequate airway will be evident in the patient's general appearance through the level of responsiveness, skin color, and ease of speaking and breathing. Your primary assessment of those patients is essentially completed by the time you:

A supposition or conjecture put forward to account for certain facts used as a basis for further investigation, by which it may be proven or disproved is the definition of what?

a. An idea of the fire's cause b. Other opinion on the fire's cause c. Hypothesis as to the fire's origin and cause d. No bearing on the origin and cause investigation

What is the term for the stiffening of muscles that occurs after death?

a. necrosis b. morbidity c. lividity d. rigor mortis