Your patient is a young adult male with a gunshot wound to the left side of his head. He is unresponsive with snoring respirations. He is breathing 6 times per minute with a pulse rate of 52 and a blood pressure of 192/104 mmHg. His radial pulse is strong and his skin is cool, but not diaphoretic. In addition to in-line manual stabilization of the cervical spine, the first intervention for this patient would be:
A) high-concentration oxygen via nonrebreather mask.
B) inserting an oropharyngeal airway.
C) performing a jaw-thrust maneuver.
D) administering positive pressure ventilation.
Question 2
Which of the following most accurately describes the etiology of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome?
A) Presence of an accessory conduction pathway
B) Idiopathic
C) Increased automaticity
D) Shifting supraventricular pacemaker sites
