At the scene where your victim is found to have an ax buried into the chest, your partner notes that the patient has gone into cardiac arrest. The ax is securely fixed into the sternum. You both decide for treatment to continue, you must:

After defibrillating a cold water drowning patient at 360J, the paramedic notes that the patient is still in V-Fib and has no change in condition. The paramedic’s treatment plan continuing on should be _______.

Checking the pregnant trauma patient to see how much fluid is required can be a challenge because if she is in her first trimester she will most likely have a:

You have an unresponsive snoring patient with an angulated right lower leg, an abdominal evisceration, and a third-degree burn to the right arm. Which of the following should you do first?

During assessment of a trauma patient, you observe a stab wound just left of the sternum in the fourth intercostal space. The wound is not bubbling, lung sounds are clear and equal, neck veins are distended, and the trachea is midline. Which of the following interventions would be the MOST critical for this patient?

Which of the following patients will require the MOST aggressive fluid volume administration for a geriatric patient experiencing hypotension?

Which of the following BEST describes the reason we aggressively treat compensated shock?

Which of the following would be the appropriate treatment for a patient in compensated shock?

You have a 28-year-old patient with a chest injury resulting in absent lung sounds on the left and hyperresonance on the left. The trachea is midline and neck veins are normal. Based on the above information, your patient MOST likely has a)

Which of the following dive emergencies typically requires the least intervention from EMS personnel?