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A hypotensive blunt-trauma patient has an open-book pelvic ring injury. A binder is on and blood pressure has improved. The next film the team wants requires taking the binder off for a “better inlet.” You should: A Remove the binder — pretty films come before physiology B Leave the working binder; this is a resuscitation problem before it is an implant problem C Go straight to definitive SI screws in the trauma bay D Start therapeutic heparin for pelvic DVT prophylaxis before any imaging Ortho Conditioning
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