You Have Gone by Ambulance to a Construction Site Where

question 5

Multiple Choice

You have gone by ambulance to a construction site where an adult male is lying on the street. The only information you have is that he fell three stories. His neck is immobilized with sacks of concrete mix on either side. Your first action should be to determine:

• A) airway patency.
• B) bleeding sites.
• C) cranial nerve function.
• D) limb position.

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Definitions:

Phantom Pain

Pain perceived in an area of the body that has been amputated or is missing.

Above-The-Knee Amputation

A surgical procedure involving the removal of a limb above the knee joint, often due to severe injury or disease.

Leukemia

A type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, characterized by the overproduction of abnormal white blood cells.

Distraction

A thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else, often leading to errors or accidents.