You and your AEMT partner are dispatched along with a BLS en…
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Yоu аnd yоur AEMT pаrtner аre dispatched alоng with a BLS engine company for a motor vehicle accident. You have a 6 minute response time. Law enforcement is on scene controlling traffic. You arrive to find a car crashed into a tree off the side of a rural highway. The fire department has already cut the power to the vehicle and stabilized it with wooden chalks. You and your partner find the patient sitting in the driver seat. The patient is alert to self, but not time, place, or event. The patient reports chest pain and difficulty breathing. Your patient had pale, cool, clammy skin, and a strong rapid radial pulse. While the fire department is working on extrication you obtain vitals; What treatment do you want to provide until the patient is extricated?