ATLS POST TEST EXAM/ ATLS POST TEST QUIZ 2024 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+

18. 17-year-old helmeted motorcyclist is struck broadside by an automobile at an intersection. He is unconscious at the scene with a blood pressure of 140/90 mm Hg, heart rate of 90 beats per minute, and respiratory rate of 22 breaths per minute. His respirations are sonorous and deep. His GCS score is 6. Immobilization of the entire patient may include the use of all the following EXCEPT: air splints. bolstering devices. a long spine board. a scoop-style stretcher. a semirigid cervical collar. 19. During an altercation, a 32-year-old man sustains a gunshot wound to the right upper hemithorax, above the nipple line with an exit wound posteriorly above the scapula on the right. He is transported by ambulance to a community