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A 17-year-old high school student is brought in to your emergency room in a comatose state. His friends have accompanied him and tell you that they have been shooting up heroin tonight and they think their friend may have had too much. The patient is unconscious and cannot protect his airway, so he is intubated. His heart rate is 60 and he is breathing through the ventilator. He is not posturing and he does not respond to a sternal rub. Preparing to finish the neurologic examination, you get a penlight. What size pupils do you expect to see in this comatose patient?A) Pinpoint pupils B) Large pupilsC) Asymmetric pupils D) Irregularly shaped pupils
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