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20 April, 05:24

You have responded to a local pool for a drowning patient. lifeguards have pulled the patient out of the pool prior to your arrival. you find the 16-year-old patient unresponsive with agonal respirations and a weak carotid pulse. what is your first action?

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  1. 20 April, 07:38
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    If I find the 16-year-old patient unresponsive with agonal respirations and a weak carotid pulse, I will Insert an oropharyngeal airway. An oropharyngeal airway is a medical device called an airway used to maintain or open a patient's airway. It does this by preventing the tongue from covering the epiglottis, which could prevent the person from breathing'
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