Author Question: You have just applied a pressure dressing to the leg of a woman who suffered a deep laceration to ... (Read 72 times)

cookcarl · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

You have just applied a pressure dressing to the leg of a woman who suffered a deep laceration to her calf from a piece of broken glass. Which one of the following should you do next?

A) Determine if the bleeding has stopped.
B) Obtain a follow-up blood pressure.
C) Apply a tourniquet above the laceration.
D) Assess for a pedal pulse.

Question 2

It is paramount that the rescuer know how to prevent further patient injury by adapting techniques of:

a. disentanglement. c. packaging.
b. removal. d. transport.