NCLEX Practice Questions: Quiz 553

The transport team responds to a motor vehicle crash, The patient requires a surgical cricothyrotomy and there is large amount of blood on the road. The transport team should instruct the prehospital providers to:
- A. Leave the blood as is, because spills tin not need to be removed; the sun and rain will dissipate any infectious agents that may be in the fluid
- B. Ask the fire service to spray the area with a fire hose to dissipate tile blood
- C. Use a 1:100 household bleach solution or approved germicide to clean the fluid
- D. Scrub the area with warm soapy water until it Is clean

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