The best answer is: b. false

Health care professionals usually have no automatic duty to provide medical care to a person with whom no contract to do so exists. Some states have created certain automatic obligations, thus, a wise practitioner should understand the laws which govern their practice.

The best answer is: the patient should be placed in a left lateral tilt (30 degrees) position

Current ECC Guidelines discuss the concern that a pregnant uterus may compress the inferior vena cava and reduce venous return, thus hampering potential cardiac output. Placing the patient in this position during CPR is classified a IIa recommendation.

The best answer is: true

Initiating transcutaneous cardiac pacing is acceptable when early interventions fail to reverse the symptomatic sinus bradycardia. Although it is not best practice to immediately begin pacing significant sinus bradycardia without regard to potential causes, pacing is the safest intervention compared with the unpredictable action of drugs- (atropine and catecholamine infusions).

The best answer is: 1 and 3 only

The essential contraindications to aspirin are true aspirin allergy as well as recent or active GI bleeding.

The best answer is: all of the above

According to the most recent Guidelines, the following are relative exclusion criteria:

• Symptoms that seem minor and are clearing rapidly
• Onset of symptoms accompanied by seizure with residual impairment
• Significant trauma or surgery in the previous 14 days
• GI or GU hemorrhage with the last 21 days
• Acute MI within 3 months

The above need to be considered by carefully weighing the risk vs. the benefit when deciding to employ fibrinolytic therapy.