After assessing the following patients, which would the AEMT identify as suffering from multisystems trauma?
A) 31-year-old woman; large laceration to her leg from a hunting knife; bleeding controlled
B) 61-year-old man; became dizzy and fell down five stairs; laceration to the head; open fracture to the left lower leg
C) 89-year-old woman fell in a nursing home; hematoma to the back of her head
D) 24-year-old man; slipped on ice; tenderness to the right shoulder
Question 2
Whistling sounds heard on exhalation is known as:
A) wheezes.
B) rhonchi.
C) snoring.
D) stridor.
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