FF/EMT Sam
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You are driving down Main Street of your rural town when you see a person lying face down in a yard with a man bending over the person, talking on a cell phone. You look around for obvious scene safety threats, and, finding none, pull up, and identify yourself as an EMT. The man on the phone tells you that he is currently on the phone with the 911 operator.
Your patient appears to be a young (late 20s-early 30s) female. In the grass around her are a small billfold, a cell phone, and a bag of candy. She is dressed in flip flops, shorts, and a t-shirt, which makes sense since many people like to walk or jog in this neighborhood, and it is a nice day. She does not respond to your verbal prompts. She is face down and you cannot tell for sure whether or not she is breathing while she is in that position, so you roll her face up. You then find that she is breathing, but is unconscious and completely unresponsive, even to painful stimuli.
Although there are several bystanders, no one saw her go down. The man who called 911 tells you that he arrived on scene 3 minutes (he checked his watch) before you did. He claims that her condition has not changed since he found her.
You have with you a jump bag of basic supplies. A volunteer station is being paged, but you don't know how quickly they will respond or arrive on scene.
What do you do? (More info available upon request).
EDIT: I tried to put this in "scenarios" and somehow failed...Can someone with the power to move threads please do so?
Your patient appears to be a young (late 20s-early 30s) female. In the grass around her are a small billfold, a cell phone, and a bag of candy. She is dressed in flip flops, shorts, and a t-shirt, which makes sense since many people like to walk or jog in this neighborhood, and it is a nice day. She does not respond to your verbal prompts. She is face down and you cannot tell for sure whether or not she is breathing while she is in that position, so you roll her face up. You then find that she is breathing, but is unconscious and completely unresponsive, even to painful stimuli.
Although there are several bystanders, no one saw her go down. The man who called 911 tells you that he arrived on scene 3 minutes (he checked his watch) before you did. He claims that her condition has not changed since he found her.
You have with you a jump bag of basic supplies. A volunteer station is being paged, but you don't know how quickly they will respond or arrive on scene.
What do you do? (More info available upon request).
EDIT: I tried to put this in "scenarios" and somehow failed...Can someone with the power to move threads please do so?
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