You Respond to a Boat Dock for a Diving Injury

question 38

Multiple Choice

You respond to a boat dock for a diving injury.You find a 24-year-old male patient unresponsive with frothy blood in the mouth and lung sounds absent on the right side.The patient is breathing 28 times a minute.The patient's friends state they were diving when he unexpectedly came out of the water complaining of chest pains and then collapsed.What is your first action?

• A) Insert an oropharyngeal airway.
• B) Place the patient on high-concentration oxygen by nonrebreather mask.
• C) Place the patient on high-concentration oxygen by bag-valve mask.
• D) Suction the airway.

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