Your Patient Is a 60-Year-Old Female Restrained Driver Involved in a Moderate-Speed

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Multiple Choice

Your patient is a 60-year-old female restrained driver involved in a moderate-speed frontal impact collision. When you arrive at the scene, she is sitting up in the driver's seat with a chief complaint of a burning sensation in her face. You note abrasions from deployment of the airbag. After immobilizing the patient on a long backboard, you begin transport. As you perform a detailed examination, the patient complains of developing right shoulder pain. Which of the following should you suspect?

• A) Myocardial contusion
• B) Intraabdominal bleeding
• C) Exacerbation of the patient's arthritis due to immobilization on the backboard
• D) Shoulder contusion or possible clavicle fracture due to restraint by the shoulder harness

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