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natalie2426

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Your patient is a 14-year-old male who crashed his bicycle, landing prone and sliding along a gravel trail. He has deep abrasions to his hands, arms, chest, and knees. The patient has small pieces of gravel, twigs, and dirt embedded in the abrasions. Which of the following is the best way to manage this situation after taking cervical spine immobilization?
 
  A) Use your fingers to pick embedded debris from the wound, bandage with moist saline dressings in place, and transport.
  B) Assess for additional injuries, flush away large pieces of debris with a sterile dressing, place dressings on the abrasions, bandage them in place, and transport.
  C) Do not attempt to remove any debris, apply pressure dressings over the embedded material if necessary, apply high-concentration oxygen, and transport.
  D) Use a tongue depressor to scrape large pieces of debris out of the wounds, place the patient on high-concentration oxygen, and transport.

Question 2

All unresponsive trauma patients should be assumed to have which of the following?
 
  A) High blood sugar B) Intoxication C) Low blood sugar D) Spinal injury



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

D



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