Question

The emergency department (ed triage nurse is assessing four victims of an automobile accident. which patient has the highest priority for treatment?

a. a patient with an open femur fracture
b. a patient with a sucking chest wound
c. a patient with bleeding of facial lacerations
d. a patient with absent pedal pulses

Answer 1

there too many variables to give an answer, but asuming all the wounds at the worst it can get i would say open femur fracture