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Since accuracy is important in completing your agency’s accident reports, remember to record facts, names and personal opinions and feelings when completing the forms.

Good Samaritan laws are designed to protect lay responders from

A victim of injury or illness is confused or cannot answer.  You should –

Sings of a severe allergic reaction include trouble breathing or swelling of the face and tongue, and the person may stop responding

What is a sign that an infant is not responding

If a child is choking, you should put 2 fingers above their navel to give abdominal thrusts.

Having your patient perform wheelchair push-ups is a closed kinetic chain activity.

When quadriceps and hamstrings, an agonist and antagonist, are contracting simultaneously, this is termed a synergist. 

 When bending down from a standing position to tie your shoes with the hip flexed and knee extended simultaneously, the hamstrings across both joints may become:

If you wanted to isolate the gluteus maximus to test it during hip extension, you would have your patient do this during hip extension.