After Assessing the Following Patients, Which Would the EMT Identify

question 17

Multiple Choice

After assessing the following patients, which would the EMT identify as suffering from multisystem trauma?

• A) 24-year-old male; slipped on ice; tenderness to the right shoulder
• B) 61-year-old male; became dizzy and fell down five stairs; laceration to the head; open fracture to the left lower leg
• C) 31-year-old female; large laceration to her leg from a hunting knife; bleeding controlled
• D) 89-year-old female fell in a nursing home; hematoma to the back of her head

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