Question

You arrive at a residence for a 70-year-old man who was found unresponsive by his neighbor. when you assess the patient, you note that his muscles are stiff and the areas of his body closest to the ground are purple. the neighbor tells you that he last spoke to the patient about 12 hours earlier. you should

Answer 1

not initiate resuscitation efforts.

The 70-year-old man is already been death for while so it will be impossible to resuscitate him. We know that by the stiffness in his muscles, which represent rigor mortis, and the fact that his body parts closest to the ground are purple, duo to the blood beginning to settle in the parts closest to the ground.