Chapter 8, Problem 1CT

You and your two other friends were hiking and along the trail you saw a man who is unconscious, with blood oozing from his head. How should you deal with this situation, List everything you think you would need to do as the first persons to arrive at the scene.

Is having a pathologist in a clinical laboratory residing in a remote area is necessary or not? Why?

How do you position the patient for an EKG? How do you prepare the skin for an EKG? Where will you place the electrodes when performing and EKG? Why? What are the precordial leads and what is their exact anatomic placement?