A 21-year-old patient has a head injury resulting from trauma and is unconscious.There are no other injuries.During the assessment,what would the nurse expect to find when testing the patient's deep tendon reflexes?
A) Reflexes will be normal.
B) The nurse will not be able to elicit any deep tendon reflexes.
C) All reflexes would be diminished,but they would be present.
D) Some reflexes would be present,depending on the area of injury.
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