Your patient is a 5-year-old female who has swallowed an unknown amount of two different household cleaning liquids. Your best source for information on how to treat this patient is:

A) the patient's physician. B) a paramedic on scene.
C) Poison Control. D) the Internet.

C

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You have been dispatched for a male patient who is "sick." While enroute, Emergency Medical Responders inform you that the patient has esophageal varices, which appear to have ruptured. You would inform your partner to prepare what materials or piece of equipment?

A) Automated external defibrillator B) Suction machine C) Trauma dressings D) Long spinal board

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A patient has referred pain to her left shoulder. Which one of the following should the AEMT suspect?

A) Damage to the gall bladder B) Rupture of the small intestine C) Hemorrhage from the spleen D) Trauma to the right kidney

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