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A second patient arrives from the same incident. A 55-year-old woman has been found unconscious, her initial observations are as follows:
Pulse: 124
Blood Pressure: 107/84
Respiration Rate: 24
Temperature: 38.3
GCS: 3
CBG: 2.4
The most appropriate initial treatment for her hypoglycaemia is...
You examine the patient's wounds. She has multiple superficial abrasions and lacerations affecting the limbs and scalp, but has one 6 cm incisional wound affecting the dorsal aspect of the left forearm.
Soft tissue views reveal no foreign body and you clean the wound thoroughly with saline and close loosely with Steri-Strips™. Which of the following statements are correct?
This patient has been reviewed by the ENT surgeon, has received verbal and written advice regarding her tympanic membrane rupture and has a follow-up appointment arranged. She has had blood taken for storage and has received her first dose of hepatitis B vaccine.
Should this patient now be discharged home from the ED or not, and why?