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A 14-year-old boy fell 10 feet from a retaining wall and hit his head on a metal post. He is responsive to verbal stimuli with incomprehensible speech. The secondary assessment indicates blood and fluid coming from inside the patient's left ear. You should do which one of the following?
 
  A) Suction the blood from the ear so you can determine the cause of bleeding.
  B) Tilt the backboard to the left to allow the ear to drain freely.
  C) Place a folded piece of gauze in the ear canal to stop the drainage.
  D) Place a piece of sterile gauze over the ear.

Question 2

When swallowing food, what leaf-shaped structure prevents it from entering the respiratory tract?
 
  A) Epiglottis
  B) Vallecula
  C) Pharynx
  D) Larynx


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Reply #1 on: Jul 2, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

A


khang

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Reply #2 on: Jul 2, 2018
Thank you


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