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

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 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?

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:

Under what circumstance should a reassessment NOT be performed?

Which of the following is an advantage of using a nasopharyngeal airway (NPA)?

Your patient is an alert 65-year-old male with a history of lung problems. He is sitting up and complaining of severe shortness of breath. He is in moderate respiratory distress. You should:

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

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:

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