If a trauma patient arrives unresponsive with obvious massive external bleeding, which step may take precedence over the standard A-B-C order?
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Correct answer: Controlling catastrophic external bleeding before airway management
In trauma care, the concept of 'Catastrophic haemorrhage' before airway sometimes leads to a 'C-A-B' or '(C)ABCDE' variant in massive bleeding scenarios.
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