What Would Cause You to Start Transporting a Critically Injured

question 21

Multiple Choice

What would cause you to start transporting a critically injured patient to a local hospital (not equipped for major trauma) instead of waiting on a helicopter for rapid transport to a trauma center 50 miles away?

• A) Sudden drop in patient's blood pressure
• B) Start of lightning and poor weather
• C) Patient statement that he cannot afford the cost
• D) Request by family to go to local hospital

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Definitions:

Opponent Process Theories

A group of theories, often applied to color vision and emotional responses, suggesting that elements are paired in a system where the activation of one element inhibits the activity of the opposite element.

Trichromatic Theory

A theory of color vision proposing that the human eye perceives color through the relative rates of response by three types of cones, each sensitive to different wavelengths of light.

Afterimage

A visual image or illusion that continues to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased.

Opponent Process Theory

A psychological and neurological model that explains how the perception of colors is the result of opposing responses between two sets of color receptors in the eyes.