You are transporting a TBI patient to a trauma center. The patient has a GCS of 9: Eyes 2 (open to pain), Verbal 3 (incoherent words), Motor 4 (withdraws to pain), with spontaneous respirations of 10 breaths/min with a non-rebreather mask at 15 L/min of oxygen and SPO2 at 97%. Upon re-assessment, you find the patient’s respiratory rate has decreased to 8/minute and the SPO2 is 90%. You immediately:



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