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A 35-year-old male presents with facial trauma after being struck in the face with a baseball. A teardropshaped left pupil is noted on exam. What type of injury is suspected? - Globe rupture A teardropshaped pupil suggests a globe rupture. .A patient with a complete spinal cord injury in neurogenic shock will demonstrate hypotension and which other clinical signs? - Bradycardia and absent motor function below the level of injury Patients with a complete spinal cord injury will have absent motor function below the level of the lesion. They become hypotensive and bradycardic due to loss of autonomic nervous system function. .During the primary survey of an unconscious patient with multi-system trauma, the nurse notes snoring respirations. What priority nursing intervention should be performed next? - Insert an oropharyngeal airway if there is no gag reflex Snoring respirations may indicate airway obstruction from the tongue. Insert an airway adjunct to alleviate obstruction by the tongue. Oropharyngeal airways can be used in patients without a gag reflex. 1.What is the effect of hypothermia on the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve - Hemoglobin does not readily release oxygen for use by the tissues A shift to the left occurs in an environment of low metabolic demand (hypothermia, hypocapnia, alkalosis), increasing hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen.