You and Your EMT Partner Respond to a Local Shipping

question 2

Multiple Choice

You and your EMT partner respond to a local shipping warehouse for a worker who was hit by a falling crate.Upon arrival,you find the man lying on the concrete floor of the facility,alert and oriented but unable to move or even feel his legs below the waist.Based on the mechanism of injury and the symptoms,which of the patient's body systems would you suspect has been impaired?

• A) Endocrine system
• B) Nervous system
• C) Cardiopulmonary system
• D) Immune system

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Definitions:

Logarithms

The level to which a base, commonly 10 or e, has to be lifted to yield a particular number.

Expand

To expand an algebraic expression means to multiply it out or remove parentheses, simplifying it to a sum or difference of terms.

Properties

Characteristics or attributes that help define mathematical operations or objects, such as commutative, associative, and distributive properties for addition and multiplication.

Logarithms

The inverse operation to exponentiation, indicating the power to which a base must be raised to obtain a particular number.