Question

When providing care to a person who is in the water and has a head, neck or spinal injury, which of the following would be essential to do? Get the person out of the water in less than 1 minute. Keep the person's face out of the water. Use a backboard with a head immobilizer in place. Approach the person's head from behind.

Answer 1

Answer:

Use a backboard with a head immobilizer in place.

Explanation:

• The fractures a victim has are the ones that dictate which tools and care shall be used to handle the patient.
• Our patient above has got head, neck or spinal injury and is in water.
• The first action shall depend on the depth of the water, if the water is shallow, then, the use of backboard with a head immobilizer in place would be used, but in case of deep waters, the patient has to be carefully taken to a place of shallow water or dry land.