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When ventilating a pediatric patient with a bag-valve mask, the EMT should:

Your 22-year-old patient is in active labor. Upon visual inspection, you note that the infant’s leg is protruding from the vagina. Appropriate management of this situation includes:

Because a tracheostomy tube bypasses the nose and mouth:

With regard to the legal implications of child abuse:

The suture of the anterior fontanelle is typically closed by _____ months of age, and the suture of the posterior fontanelle is typically closed by _____ months of age.

You and your partner are both male and are attending to a 28-year-old female patient complaining of diffuse abdominal pain. The patient is 34 weeks pregnant with her first child. The patient refuses to allow you to examine her, and her husband informs you that their culture does not allow males to examine or care for pregnant women. You should:

Bruising to the _________ is LEAST suggestive of child abuse.

A 75-year-old woman complains of shortness of breath. Which of the following findings should alert the EMT to the possibility of a pulmonary embolism?

Effective methods for providing pain relief to a child with an extremity injury include:

The signs and symptoms of poisoning in children: