You arrive in the aid room to find an EMT assisting a mother during delivery. You're told that the patient's perineum tore and that you need to control the bleeding. Which of the following actions would you take?
a. Place a cold pack on the mother's abdomen just below the umbilicus.
b. Apply a sterile gauze dressing with gentle pressure above the mother's vagina.
c. Place a sterile dressing between the mother's vagina and rectum.
d. Insert sterile gauze into the mother's vagina and leave it in place until the bleeding stops.
Answer: c
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