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You Have Responded to a Local Pool for a Drowning

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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?


A) Apply high-concentration oxygen by nonrebreather mask.
B) Apply high-concentration oxygen by bag-valve mask.
C) Insert a Combitube.
D) Insert an oropharyngeal airway.

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