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Your patient is a 16-year-old male who was ejected from an all-terrain vehicle and struck his head on a large rock. He was not wearing a helmet. He is unresponsive with shallow, irregular respirations; a blood pressure of 170/110 mmHg; and a heart rate of 50 beats per minute. Which of the following interventions would be MOST appropriate?
A) Insert an oropharyngeal airway and ventilate via bag-valve mask at 30 breaths per minute.
B) Insert an oropharyngeal airway and give oxygen by nonrebreather mask at 15 lpm.
C) Insert an oropharyngeal airway and ventilate via bag-valve mask at 20 breaths per minute.
D) Insert a nasopharyngeal airway and give oxygen by nonrebreather mask at 15 lpm.
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Yay! Makes total sense now, thank you.
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