It is important for the Emergency Medical Responder to assume any woman of childbearing age with abdominal pain is pregnant until proven otherwise because:
A) early pregnancy complications can be life threatening.
B) pregnant women have an increased risk for pneumothorax.
C) pregnancy causes an increased likelihood of septic infection.
D) some women are likely to lie about being pregnant.
A
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