You respond to a 48-year-old morbidly obese female patient. Her adult daughter called you because she has not gotten up from her oversized recliner chair in over a week. She has tried to help her out of the chair but states that each time her mother screams in agony. The foul odor presence of urine and feces is strong around the patient. Her feet do not touch the ground, and any attempt to lift the patient by her arms or scoot her down to the end of the chair results in severe pain to the patient. You are finding it nearly impossible to get a good grip on the patient. How will you get her out of the chair?
A) Long spine board B) Soft stretcher
C) Lie the chair back and use a scoop stretcher D) Vest-type extrication device
Question 2
A patient with hyphema would exhibit:
A) deformity of the sclera.
B) edema of the globe.
C) disfigurement of the eye.
D) blood in the eye chamber.
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