Your patient is the 18-year-old male driver of a vehicle that struck a tree. He is conscious and complaining of neck pain. The passenger is obviously dead. You have performed your primary assessment. Which of the following is the next step?
A) Perform a rapid trauma assessment.
B) Perform a tertiary assessment.
C) Immobilize the patient on a long backboard and perform a detailed examination in the ambulance.
D) Rule out the possibility of cervical spine injury before moving the patient.
Question 2
Which of the following is NOT a factor in decreased medication compliance in the elderly?
A) Multicompartment pill boxes
B) Inadequate income
C) Child-proof medication containers
D) Polypharmacy
Male lying supine with large ecchymosis on lateral rib cage and shoulder.
Evolutionary tree derived from amino acid sequence comparisons
phylogenetic tree
The traditional human karyotypes derived from a normal female and a normal male