You Are Assessing a Young Male Patient Who Is Responsive

question 57

Multiple Choice

You are assessing a young male patient who is responsive to painful stimuli and breathing agonally after being ejected from an automobile at a high rate of speed. His pulse is weak and thready, and his skin is cool and diaphoretic. When addressing his airway and breathing, the EMT must immediately:

• A) administer oxygen at 15 lpm with a nonrebreather face mask.
• B) perform the jaw-thrust and begin artificial ventilations with the bag-valve mask.
• C) immobilize him to a long spine board, and then start positive pressure ventilation.
• D) open the airway using the head-tilt, chin-lift and begin ventilations with the bag-valve mask.

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