If a paramedic intubates the esophagus of a patient instead of the trachea, does not confirm tube placement, and leaves the tube in place, he has breached his duty by:

a. malfeasance. c. nonfeasance.
b. misfeasance. d. cofeasance.


b

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You are responding to a call for a 4-year-old child hit by a car. When assessing this child, which injury patterns would you recognize as typical based on the child's age and mechanism of injury?

A) Deformed femurs, bruises to the chest and abdomen, and head injury B) Left arm and leg deformities, and head injury C) Bilateral ankle deformity, contusions to the back, and face trauma D) Head injury with deformities to both upper arms and neck trauma

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The early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment (EPSDT) program includes coverage for children younger than age:

2. 6. 19. 21.

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Portion sizes have ________ over the past twenty years

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Each pelvic bone is formed by the fusion of the:

a.) sacrum and ischium b.) ilium, ischium, pubis c.) pubis and acetabulum d.) ilium, pubis, and sacrum

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