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You Respond to a Boat Dock for a Diving Injury

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You respond to a boat dock for a diving injury.You find a 24-year-old male patient unresponsive with frothy blood in the mouth and lung sounds absent on the right side.The patient's friends state they were diving when he came out of the water complaining of chest pains and then collapsed.What condition do you suspect?


A) Myocardial infarction
B) Decompression sickness
C) Air embolism
D) Near drowning

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