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A 19-year-old hemophiliac with behavioral problems has intentionally cut his right wrist. Assessment indicates an open airway, adequate breathing, and profound bleeding from the self-inflicted laceration. What instructions would you provide to other EMTs taking care of this patient?
 
  A) Let's use normal bleeding-control procedures and see how that works.
  B) Let's elevate his arm and place a tourniquet distal to the cut.
  C) Since control is virtually impossible, we need to transport immediately.
  D) We need to quickly apply a tourniquet directly above the cut.

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A patient with abdominal pain shows you black and loosely formed stool in the toilet. You would advise the hospital that the patient has:
 
  A) melenic stool.
  B) hematemesis.
  C) bile-like stool.
  D) hematochezia.


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Kedrick2014

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Reply #1 on: Jul 3, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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