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You have been called to a home for a female patient in labor. On scene the family tells you that the 37-year-old patient is 42 weeks pregnant and wanted to have her baby at home naturally. They tell you that she has been in labor for over 24 hours and suddenly began complaining of severe and tearing abdominal pain. What condition should the EMT suspect?
Problem-Focused Coping
A type of stress management that involves directly addressing the cause of stress in practical ways.
Emotion-Focused Coping
A stress management strategy where individuals try to reduce negative emotional responses associated with stress, rather than addressing the root cause.
General Adaptation Syndrome
A theory proposing three stages of physiological response to stress: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
Resistance
The refusal to accept or comply with something; in physics, it refers to the property of a material or object that impedes the flow of electrical current.
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