You are driving home late one night from a state-to-state interhospital transport. You are still in the other state driving home at 0200 hours when you come upon a single-vehicle MVC on a deserted stretch of the highway. You stop your ambulance, and you and your partner assess the scene and find out there is only one occupant of the vehicle and that the victim is unresponsive. If you initiate care and transport the patient to a hospital without summoning local EMS or fire, your actions could be considered:
A) illegal.
B) unethical.
C) inappropriate.
D) unnecessary.
Question 2
In which of the three I's of a myocardial infarction is irreversible muscle damage occurring?
A) infarction
B) injury
C) ischemia
D) all the above