A 14-year-old boy has fallen through a plate glass window and is ...

[stevenposner]

A 14-year-old boy has fallen through a plate glass window and is bleeding heavily from a laceration to his arm. His panicked mother has called 911 for help. Since the 911 operators are also Emergency Medical Dispatchers, which one of the following will they be able to provide?
 
  A) Simultaneous notification of the hospital
  B) Whether the EMS response is covered by medical insurance
  C) Instructions on how to control bleeding
  D) The names of the EMTs who are responding

Question 2

Your 79-year-old female patient appears to show all signs and symptoms of a stroke. Her level of consciousness has rapidly deteriorated, she is now unconscious, and she can no longer control her own airway. While you intervene to manage her airway, the best position in which to keep fluid or vomitus from occluding her airway would be the:
 
  A) recovery position. B) Trendelenburg position.
  C) prone position. D) Fowler position.

[stallen]

Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

A

[stevenposner]

Excellent

[zacnyjessica]

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