The EMT is correctly assessing a child's apical pulse when he:
A) carefully feels over both carotid arteries for at least 30 seconds.
B) uses a stethoscope to listen to and count the femoral pulse rate.
C) feels both a carotid and brachial pulse for equality and rate.
D) listens with a stethoscope to the child's left side of the chest.
D
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