Question

During your assessment of a patient with blunt chest trauma, you note that the patient has shallow breathing and paradoxical movement of the left chest wall. you should:

Answer 1

As your partner is administering oxygen to the patient, you should: stabilize the chest wall with a bulky dressing.
The purpose of this bulky dressing is to immobilize the patient so your partner wouldn't do the treatment into the wrong floating section. But you need to make sure that the bulky dressing is not to tight for the patient