EMTs are responding to a patient who is unresponsive. While checking the airway, it is noticed that the patient is breathing 8 times a minute with snoring respirations and cyanosis noted around the lips. What is the first step in managing this patient?

You and your partner are at the scene of an unresponsive trauma patient. While getting equipment out of the ambulance, your partner suddenly collapses and becomes unresponsive. Which of the following should you do next?

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? 

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?

Rather than falling into “the Google trap,” some of the most reliable and appropriate college-level research material is better found:

Which method of using source material in your own work must be documented?

ESCC’s policy regarding plagiarism identifies and differentiates between which of the following types?

Rather than falling into “the Google trap,” some of the most reliable and appropriate college-level research material is better found:

Which method of using source material in your own work must be documented?

A patient has a broken arm, a burn on his stomach, dysphagia, and a laceration of the right eye with controlled bleeding. Which complaint must be addressed first?