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If you are called to a patient with altered mental status; head trauma, seizure, hypoglycemia, etc. Can they refuse care ? If they are refusing care, or even refusing to sign your forms what would you do ? Get police involved ? Maybe the patient had a seizure and is still likely postictal...

I am a new EMT student looking for some advice on packaging the major trauma patient. When you have an unstable patient with multiple fractures, and the mechanism of injury suggests severe internal trauma- Would you take time splinting a radius/ulna ? Obvious dislocated shoulder ? Tib/Fib ...