[Answered]: You are working with an EMS student who asks you…

You are working with an EMS student who asks you why you performed such a thorough asseswment of your abdominal-injured patient since so liftle can be done for that in the pre-hospital setting. Which of the following is the BLST response? A thorough assessment is required per protocol and is the appeopriate standard of care. Athorough sevensment helps to determine if other areas, such as the thorax, may be involed. A thorough assessment increases the confidence level of the patient with the pre-hospital provider. A thorough assessment will minimize the amount of time the emergency department will spend assessing the patient.