You are assessing a patient who was involved in a motor vehicle accident with a significant mechanism of injury. Which of the following best explains how the mechanism of injury affects your patient assessment and treatment?

You are dispatched to an adult patient who fell. They have an obvious head injury, and deformity to both lower extremities, and have vomited several times. What is your highest priority for this patient?

A patient has an altered mental status with a history of diabetes. Assessment reveals the following: unresponsive, shallow breathing with high-pitch sounds noted on inspiration, a thready pulse, diaphoresis, and warm skin. In accordance to the patient assessment protocol, what order should these be performed? 

Which of the following scenarios would indicate a significant mechanism of injury?

Of the following patients, which would benefit by asking closed-ended questions?

An EMT is obtaining a respiratory rate on a 5-year-old patient. The patient is breathing at a rate of 10 breaths within 30 seconds. How many breaths per minute is the child’s respiratory rate?

 An EMT just received verbal orders from medical control to administer an additional dose of epinephrine to a patient experiencing an anaphylactic reaction. Which of the following is the appropriate action from the EMT? 

Which of the following patients will benefit from a Beta2 agonist medication?

You can’t locate a pulse on either wrist, but the patient is responsive. There is a carotid pulse. This most likely indicates

Categorize the following signs/symptoms with the corresponding nervous system activation.