While caring for a critically injured patient at the scene of a motor vehicle crash, an emergency physician bystander stops at the scene to assist. Which of the following procedures performed by the physician would require the physician to accompany the
patient to the hospital in the ambulance?

Atampa surgeon, dr. floyd legatron, mistakenly removed the wrong leg of 52-year-old jameson kingsmith during an amputation procedure in june of 2009. apparently, a chain of errors led to the mishap, and the surgical team even realized their error halfway into surgery, but by that time it was too late, and the leg had to be removed.