Author Question: The second stage of labor ends with: a. contractions that become regular and occur every 34 ... (Read 16 times)

cabate · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

The second stage of labor ends with:

a. contractions that become regular and occur every 34 minutes.
b. delivery of the placenta.
c. delivery of the baby.
d. rupture of the amniotic sac.

Question 2

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.