With school-age children, the Paramedic will likely be able to perform a physical examination in the usual ____ fashion, as it is likely they had enough experience visiting the doctor's office for annual checkups to be used to this examination sequence.

After intubation of a cardiac arrest victim, you observe a slow but steady rise in the expired CO2 levels as measured by a bedside capnometer. Which of the following best explains this observa-tion?

a. Return of spontaneous circulation b. Abnormally high c. Placement of the endotracheal tube in the esophagus d. Failure of the cuff to properly seal the airway

When oxygenated blood enters the heart, it flows

A) from the pulmonary veins into the left atrium. B) from the superior vena cava into the right ventricle. C) from the cardiac veins into the right atrium. D) from the pulmonary artery into the left ventricle.