While Transporting a Patient with a Traumatic Wound to the Back,you

While transporting a patient with a traumatic wound to the back,you call in report to the receiving hospital over the radio.Due to radio static and background noise in the Emergency Department,the physician has had to ask you twice to repeat if the wound was superior or inferior.Why would this distinction be important?

A) The physician is just trying to determine if the wound is deep or not so she knows what to prepare for.
B) The answer is not necessarily important. The physician is just focusing on getting her standard questions answered while dealing with an inadequate radio system.
C) The location of the wound is important in determining which types of resources to have available when the patient arrives.
D) It is a triage question to determine if the patient is critical or not so the hospital can prioritize.