You are dispatched to a convenience store for a patient who passed out. upon arriving at the scene, you find two off-duty emts performing cpr on the patient, a 58-year-old male. your initial action should be to:

the aorta is the large artery leaving the heart branches into smaller arteries, which eventually branch into capillaries.the arteries carry oxygen and nutrients away from your heart, to your body's tissues. the capillaries are small, thin blood vessels that connect the arteries and the veins. the statement that arteries carry oxygen-rich blood to capillaries is true. veins on the other hand are blood vessels that take oxygen-poor blood back to the heart.