While a 61-year-old female patient in cardiac arrest receives emergency care, you note that her abdomen grows larger with each ventilation provided from a bag-valve mask. Which instructions should you provide to your partner?
A) "Try delivering each ventilation over 3 seconds, and let's slow down the rate."
B) "The ventilation rate and force of ventilation need to be increased so air goes into the lungs."
C) "Let's slow the ventilation rate to 10 per minute, providing each breath over 1 second."
D) "I need another rescuer to apply firm pressure over the stomach, while we ventilate this patient."
C) "Let's slow the ventilation rate to 10 per minute, providing each breath over 1 second."
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