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NREMT Paramedic

Category - Medical

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Assessing children can be quite different from assessing adults. Each of the statements below is true of assessing children except one. Which statement about assessing children is not true?
  1. Brachial pulse should be used with children, rather than carotid or radial pulse.
    B. Children’s pulse rates tend to be higher than adult pulse rates.
  2. Children’s pulse rates tend to be higher than adult pulse rates.
  3. Children with serious problems tend to decline more gradually than adults with similar problems.
  4. Children’s airways typically open when the head is in a neutral position, rather than in a tilted position.
  5. Children’s blood pressure can appear near normal until almost half of their blood volume is gone.
Explanation
Answer: C - Assessing children is different from assessing adults in all of the ways mentioned above except that adults with serious problems tend to decline more gradually than children. Thus, choice “C” is stated incorrectly. Children tend to appear stable for a longer period of time and then become much worse very quickly. All of the correct statements above should make the responder keenly aware that monitoring a child’s status is critical and can be very challenging.
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