Under what circumstance should a reassessment NOT be performed?

You are approaching a 16-year-old male with bright red spurting blood coming from his leg. He is screaming, and he begs you to help him. You should:

You are performing a rapid trauma assessment on an unresponsive 30-year-old male. As you evaluate his head, which of the following should you check for?

Your patient is a motorcyclist who was ejected after striking a guard rail. The patient is unresponsive to painful stimuli and is breathing shallowly six to eight times per minute. Which of the following should you do first?

You are ventilating an 85-year-old male without difficulty. A nurse tells you that the patient has properly-fitting dentures. You should:

During SAMPLE, when assessing a patient’s pertinent past history, you should ask which of the following questions?

Your patient fell out of a tree while putting the roof on a tree house. He was at the top of a 40-foot ladder and he is 6 feet tall. Because of this total height, your patient should be transported to:

Plasma oncotic pressure is created by the movement of which of the following?

Your first goal in the care of a patient with an eating disorder is:

Your patient is on donepezil HCL. This tells you your patient has which disorder?