- All of the following conditions and factors may produce falsely HIGH oximetry readings EXCEPT:
Your answer:
carbon monoxide poisoning
high intensity lighting
anemia
cyanide poisoning
- Patients who are refractory to a drug:
Your answer:
do not respond to the drug
require less than the normal dose of the drug to achieve a therapeutic effect
respond to the drug in an exaggerated manner
require more and more of the drug to achieve a therapeutic effect
- A patient who is behaving in a bizarre and threatening manner refuses transport to the hospital. He is bleeding profusely from a self-inflected knife wound and reacts violently when anyone tries to approach him. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish transport of this patient with minimal harm to the patient, the EMT's and bystanders and with the least possible risk of false imprisonment charges?
Your answer:
have the patient's private physician come to the scene and calm the patient dowm.
have a team of paramedics come to the scene to administer sedation to the patient.
have law enforcement apprehend the patient and accompany you to the hospital.
have the patient's family take responsibility for transporting the patient to the hospital
- A patient with hypothermia may exhibit a false reading because of:
Your answer:
increased blood pressure
increased red blood cel production
sensitiveityof the oximeter to cold skin
decreased peripheral blood flow
- Signs of dehydration include all of the following EXCEPT:
Your answer:
poor skin turgor
sacral edema
sunken fontanelle
tachycardia
- A bag-valve mask with an oxygen reservior set at a flow rate of 10 to 15 liters can deliver an oxygen concentration of up to _______.
Your answer:
50 percent
65 percent
80 percent
95 percent
- Which of the following is true of actomatic ventilators?
Your answer:
They can tolerate temperature extremes
They care be used safely with all age groups
The pop-up valve helps overcome pulmonary edema
They deliver mandatory ventilation only.
- The presence of abnormal breathing sounds may indicate any of the following EXCEPT:
Your answer:
swelling of airway passages casued by trauma
dilation of lower airwya passages caused by sympathetic nervous response
partial upper airway obstruction by a foreign body
constriction of lower airway passages caused by respiratory disease
- Side effects of epinephrine include all of the following EXCEPT:
Your answer:
tremulousness
anxiety
headache
bradycardia
- Which of the following is NOT a necessary link in the sequence of EMS communications?
Your answer:
communications between EMTs and medical control
notification of the EMS system
monitoring by EMTs of police scanners
dispatch of an EMS team to the scene
- The primary tools of the EMT are:
Your answer:
the oral airway and bag-valve mask
pen light, tape, and scissors
common sense and a professional attitude
the quick-response vehicle and its equipment
- The amount of blood pumped from the heart in one contraction is called:
Your answer:
atrial depolarization
delay at the atrioventricular node
ventricular repolarization
ventricular depolarization
- When drugs reach their targeted tissue, they begin a chain of biochemical events that lead to the desired physiological changes. This is called the drugs's:
Your answer:
potentiation
mechanism of action
distribution
absorption
- Your patient is semi-conscious with a gag reflex. Which of the following airway adjuncts is indicated?
Your answer:
nasopharyngeal airway
oropharyngeal airway
esophageal obturator airway
endotracheal tube
- The scoring system that evaluates a patient's eye openings, best verbal response, and best motor response is:
Your answer:
the Glasgow Coma Scale
the primary survey
the Trauma Score
AVPU
- You need to administer medication to a patient who has an indwelling Hickman catheter. You have connected a syringe containing normal saline to flush the line. You should:
Your answer:
inject the saline, then aspirate for blood return
stop injecting saline before the syringe is completely empty to prevent injecting air
wait 60 seconds after injecting the saline before connecting the infusion tubing
inject two syringes of saline to flush out any infectiour pathogens
- The notation "Hx LBP" would mean:
Your answer:
hematocrit for low blood pressure
history of lower back pain
hemorrhage with lower bowel pain
hemiplegia with left body paralysis
- The medical abbreviation "p.o." means:
Your answer:
proximate cause
abandonment
abdication of duty
negligence
- Which statment is NOT true of a Tem-Code system?
Your answer:
Many systems have abandoned the use of Ten-Code in favor of standard English
Use of a Ten-Code system saves radio transmission time
A Ten-Code system uses the number "10" followed by another code number
A Ten-Code system is designed to convey complex medical information
- While examining your patient, you note pinpoint pupils. You know this may indicate:
Your answer:
cardiac arrest
head injury
respiratory arrest
narcotic overdose
- The prefix "extra='" as in "extracellular," means:
Your answer:
outside
within
upon
above
- You arrive at the scene of a patient having difficulty breathing. You find out that Mr. Donaldson has advanced stages of lung cancer and was sent home fro the hospital because they cound not do any more for him. When he asks you if he is going to die, an ethical response might be:
Your answer:
"Everyone will be all right. Just lie back and relax."
not to say anything
"I don't know. We're taking you to the hopsital where you can get help."
"We are all mortal"
- The condition in which eyes do not move in unison is known as:
Your answer:
doll's eyes
aniscoria
dysconjugate gaze
unequal pupils
- A dose of medicatin injected into a vein all at once is called a (an):
Your answer:
infusion
IV push
bolus
transfusion
- Which of the following is NOT a complication associated with demand valve use?
Your answer:
subcutaneous emphysema
pneumothorax
gastric distention
underinflation of the lungs