You respond to a call of an explosion at a local chemical company. Upon arrival, the company's hazmat team is decontaminating patients so you can easily treat them. The team extricates a 35-year-old man who is experiencing slight respiratory distress. The care that you should provide FIRST for this patient is:
A) high-flow oxygen.
B) an immediate head-to-toe trauma assessment.
C) transport to the local trauma center.
D) insertion of a supraglottic airway.
Question 2Your patient is having extreme difficulty breathing and you note bilateral wheezing in all quadrants. She is unable to hold herself upright and has become lethargic. Which of the following should you immediately do?
A) Provide positive pressure ventilation.
B) Call for Advanced Life Support backup.
C) Administer oxygen via nonrebreather.
D) Call for orders to intubate.
Question 3You respond to a patient who has sustained a fall. In assessing the scene, you MUST include the surface the patient landed on and the ________ to identify the need for specialty trauma care.
A) distance of the fall.
B) transport time.
C) direction in which kinetic energy is transmitted through the body.
D) path of the patient's body over the course of the fall.
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