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You are treating a patient with suspected heat cramps. Your medical director has issued standing orders for such treatment given the high number of heat-related emergencies to which your service routinely responds in the summer months. Regarding these standing orders, which of these instructions would seem most appropriate?

The high pressure alarm is sounding on a home ventilator. As your partner prepares the bag-valve mask, you quickly determine that no problem exists with the machine itself. As positive pressure ventilation is initiated, you note high resistance to the ventilations and have a difficult time adequately squeezing the bag. Your next action would be to:

When moving a patient with severe generalized hypothermia, which of these instructions is most appropriate to relay to your fellow EMS providers?

A 43-year-old male patient has removed a tick from his arm prior to your arrival. He is refusing all care at this time. Which of these statements made by the EMT would be most appropriate?

You are by the side of a young male patient who hit his head after diving from a hillside into a shallow lake. The patient is responsive to noxious stimuli applied to his trapezeus muscle and has a large hematoma to his forehead with abrasions all over his face. A paramedic also asks you to apply painful stimuli to his arms and legs, one at a time. You recognize that the paramedic wants you to assess for which type of injury or condition?

You have been called to a residence for a 21-year-old female in labor. On arrival, you immediately see that the head of the baby is out of the vagina. While delivering the head, the mother tells you that she is having twins. The EMT should immediately

You have been asked by your medical director to put together an emergency kit specifically for patients who have been stung or bitten by small marine life animals. Which of these items should you place in that kit?

The grandfather of an alert and oriented 2-year-old girl found her on the floor playing with pills from his open bottle of Digoxin (a heart medication that slows the heart rate). He cannot remember how many pills were in the bottle, but he thinks that some are missing and suspects that his granddaughter may have eaten them thinking that they were candy. Assessment reveals the patient’s airway to be open and breathing adequate. Her pulse is appropriate for a child her age and her skin warm and dry. Her grandfather is not sure of how long ago she may have taken the pills. Given the assessment findings, the EMT would assume:

The components of the Apgar scoring system include:

You are at a scene where a patient was calm and compliant until a few seconds ago. Now he is brandishing a knife and threatening to kill you and your partner if you do not immediately leave. The man is intoxicated, and police have been notified but have not yet arrived. What is your best course of action?