Excellent basic rundown of EMT procedures when working a scene:
http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~akshay.shah/ems/notes/notes2.html
notice, all ye from NCNM, that on this page a normal oriented person is A&O x4
ONLY at NCNM is normal x3. =-/
( review notes swiped from another student, somewhat updated, I know this material better than the teacher and have improved on his notes in places )

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