You have responded to a local pool for a drowning patient. Lifeguards have pulled the patient out of the pool prior to your arrival. You find the 16-year-old patient unresponsive with agonal respirations and a weak carotid pulse. What is your first action?
A) Insert a Combitube.
B) Insert an oropharyngeal airway.
C) Apply high-concentration oxygen by bag-valve mask.
D) Apply high-concentration oxygen by nonrebreather mask.
B
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