RT Book, Section A1 Woods, Brian A2 Lee, Kiwon SR Print(0) ID 1101644132 T1 Abdominal Trauma T2 The NeuroICU Book YR 2012 FD 2012 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071636353 LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1101644132 RD 2024/10/03 AB Emergency medical services (EMS) calls into the community hospital where you are working to alert the staff that they are bringing in by ambulance a 34-year-old male driver who survived a head-on automobile collision. Initial details over the radio inform you that he was found conscious in the car. An IV was started while he was placed in a cervical collar and on a trauma board for transport. He is currently lucid and conversant with EMS staff. His vitals are BP 100/70 mm Hg, pulse 100 bpm, respiratory rate 18 breaths/min, and pulse oximetry 99% on nasal cannula. He denies pain, but the EMS staff can smell alcohol. Initial field physical examination revealed head lacerations with some bleeding, but he is moving all extremities and he has no gross deformities.