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At 10:35 in the morning two ambulances were sent to the site of a rural two-car traffic accident. The first unit that arrived at the scene confirmed that two cars were involved and three people were injured. According to the eyewitnesses’ accounts of the event, the driver of one of the cars had lost control of his vehicle and collided frontally with the second car. The two occupants of the second vehicle had only minor injuries, but the driver who had caused the accident was already comatose. After assessment and triage, the second EMS team focused on the two mildly injured occupants, of which one was complaining of paresthesia likely secondary to a whiplash injury. The unconscious victim had been quickly removed from his vehicle by the first team and transferred to the ambulance. He received oxygen via face mask and two largebore intravenous lines were inserted. A normal blood-sugar finger stick ruled out hypoglycemia as a cause for the unconsciousness.
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(2008). Information Processing and Mental Models: World Views. In: St. Pierre, M., Hofinger, G., Buerschaper, C. (eds) Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71062-2_6
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