You Are the First on the Scene of a Two-Car

question 5

Multiple Choice

You are the first on the scene of a two-car vehicle collision.Your patient is a front passenger who is unresponsive inside the vehicle.The patient is trapped and the vehicle is on fire.The fire department is still en route.You should:

• A) perform an emergency move.
• B) perform an urgent move.
• C) use your fire extinguisher to put out the fire.
• D) have the fire department rescue the patient.

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Definitions:

Electrode Catheters

Flexible, conductive tubes used in medical procedures to diagnose or treat cardiovascular abnormalities by delivering electrical currents to heart tissues.

Artificial Pacemaker

An electronic device implanted in the body to regulate the heartbeat by generating electrical impulses.

Vena Cava

One of two large veins that empty into the right atrium of the heart.

Right Atrium

The right upper chamber of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood from the body through the vena cava.