Your Patient Is a Motorcyclist Who Was Ejected After Striking

question 11

Multiple Choice

Your patient is a motorcyclist who was ejected after striking a guard rail.The patient is unresponsive to painful stimuli and is breathing shallowly six to eight times per minute.Which of the following should you do first?

• A) Use a bag-valve mask with supplemental oxygen.
• B) Perform a rapid trauma assessment.
• C) Apply a cervical collar.
• D) Apply a nonrebreather mask with an oxygen flow rate of 15 lpm.

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