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You are on the scene of a car that hit a tree head-on. The patient has a laceration to his forehead and a deformity to his left forearm. The car is a hybrid that runs on traditional fuel as well as hydrogen gas. The vehicle has moderate front-end damage, but the air bags did not deploy. The patient was wearing a seat belt. Which instruction is most appropriate in this situation to give to the arriving fire department personnel?

While you are assessing a patient with abdominal pain, the patient informs you that they are a chronic carrier of hepatitis B. Their skin is not jaundiced, nor do they have a fever. As an EMT, you realize:

You believe that a patient who has been shot in the lower abdomen is bleeding internally and is in an early stage of shock. The patient’s mental status is decreasing. What would be appropriate prehospital care of this patient?

As an EMT, you would recognize what situation as having the greatest potential for causing emotional stress?

You are on the scene of a car that hit a tree head-on. The patient has a laceration to his forehead and a deformity to his left forearm. The car is a hybrid that runs on traditional fuel as well as hydrogen gas. The vehicle has moderate front-end damage, but the air bags did not deploy. The patient was wearing a seat belt. Which instruction is most appropriate in this situation to give to the arriving fire department personnel?

As you approach a young male lying on the sidewalk who was called into 911 as an “unresponsive male,” you observe an area of dark blood on his pants. He appears lethargic, pale, and diaphoretic. Your first action in caring for this patient would be to:

As you approach a young male lying on the sidewalk who was called into 911 as an “unresponsive male,” you observe an area of dark blood on his pants. He appears lethargic, pale, and diaphoretic. Your first action in caring for this patient would be to:

While en route to a domestic violence incident with possible injuries, the police contact you and report that a male patient has arterial bleeding from a stab wound to the arm. Given this information, which bleeding characteristics do you expect?

A female lifeguard fell 10 feet from her chair and now has deformity, swelling, and ecchymosis to her right lower leg. The leg also is rotated medially. Another lifeguard has taken and is maintaining manual cervical spine motion restriction. As your partner conducts the primary assessment and finds no life threats or disturbances in her mental status, you should perform which action first?

While en route to a domestic violence incident with possible injuries, the police contact you and report that a male patient has arterial bleeding from a stab wound to the arm. Given this information, which bleeding characteristics do you expect?