The EMT would recognize the patient has a sensory impairment when he encounters:

You have been called to a local dialysis center for a patient with a bleeding fistula on her right upper arm. Despite all care at the center, the site continues to bleed. Your best choice in the care of the patient would be:

A) to apply a constricting band above the fistula. B) to place a pressure dressing over the fistula. C) lowering the arm for and during transport. D) to allow site the bleed to wash bacteria from the fistula.

Following blunt injury to the anterior trunk, a patient is coughing up bright red blood. You should be most suspicious of

A. intra-abdominal bleeding B. gastrointestinal bleeding C. bleeding within the lungs D. severe myocardial damage