When performing the secondary assessment, which sign is most suggestive of a spinal cord injury?

When the chest impacts the steering wheel during a motor vehicle crash with rapid deceleration, the resulting injury that kills almost one third of patients, usually within seconds, is:

A. a hemothorax. B. aortic shearing. C. a pneumothorax. D. a ruptured myocardium.

The purpose of algorithms in rate based measures is to:

A) determine if the patient experienced the event described in the numerator. B) eliminate records with missing and/or invalid data. C) determine if the patient's record belongs in the measure population described by the denominator. D) All of the above E) None of the above