A patient at 34 weeks’ gestation states that the baby is coming. Paramedics notice a cord protruding from the vagina. What should be the next step in patient care?

Use the following information to answer the next five questions:Paramedics are called to football training camp in late August. A 16-year-old has been exercising in the sun and sweating profusely. He has been drinking water at regular intervals throughout the day. His skin is hot and sweaty, and he is alert and normotensive.How would the paramedics expect this patient’s core body temperature to be? (Refer to the previously described scenario.)

What are typical causes of behavioral emergencies?

A pregnant patient can’t remember how many weeks she is into her pregnancy. On exam, paramedics feel the fundus of the uterus at the level of the umbilicus. How far in term should the paramedic suspect the patient is?

Paramedics are called to the home of a 34-year-old female for a nonspecific abdominal complaint. She informs them that she has had many abdominal surgeries that have not resolved her complaints. Which of the following disorders is a condition in which an individual has complaints (lasting several years) of various physical problems for which no physical cause can be found?

Expansion of trapped air in the lungs from reverse squeeze can result in which condition?

Which is an intrapartum risk factor that may affect the need for neonatal resuscitation?

Use the following to answer the next two questions:Paramedics are called to the home of a 44-year-old male who is threatening suicide. Local law enforcement personnel are already on the scene when you arrive, and EMS finds the patient sitting on the hood of his car in the garage. During your interview of this patient, you should:

To increase cardiac output, what do children increase?

Use the following information to answer the next question:Paramedics have just delivered a newborn at 38 weeks of gestational age. Paramedics discover a scaphoid abdomen and unusual sounds in the left lower chest. The neonate is exhibiting mild respiratory distress.Definitive care for this patient should include which management technique? (Refer to the previously described scenario.)