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A fall is considered severe anytime an adult patient has fallen more than ________ feet.
 
  A) 20 B) 8 C) 10 D) 15

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Your patient is a 28-year-old male who was ejected from his motorcycle after striking a parked vehicle. He has multiple deformities to his upper and lower extremities on both sides. Which of the following would be the BEST way to immobilize this patient's extremities prior to transport?
 
  A) Use traction splints for the lower extremities and allow the upper extremities to be immobilized by the long backboard.
  B) Use padded board splints for the upper extremities and PASG for the lower extremities.
  C) Immobilize the patient to a long backboard without splinting the extremities individually.
  D) Use moldable splints for the upper and lower extremities, padding any voids to fully stabilize the fractures.



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fwbard

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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C




ssal

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Reply 2 on: Jul 3, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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