Your Patient Is Unresponsive

question 29

Multiple Choice

Your patient is unresponsive. Which piece of information given to you by the patient's family is most important to the EMT in relation to a possible stroke?

• A) "He forgot to take his blood thinner last night."
• B) "We think that he had too much to drink last night."
• C) "We noticed him acting oddly about 7 p.m."
• D) "He took some ibuprofen last night for a fever and cough."

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