Quiz Chapter 12

Which term refers to the EMT's initial sense of the patient's condition, based on immediate assessment of the patient's environment, appearance, and chief complaint?

• Scene size-up

• Primary assessment

• General impression

• Secondary assessment

What is the first thing the EMT does during the primary assessment?

• Opens the airway

• Determines transport priority

• Forms a general impression

• Assesses mental status

You are at the scene where a 19-year-old female college student has been drinking large quantities of alcohol throughout the evening. On your arrival, the patient is lying on her back with no signs of trauma; has vomited; and has slow, wet sounding respirations. Which of the following should you do next?

• Check for carotid and radial pulses.

• Open the patient's airway using a head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver.

• Assist respirations with a bag-valve-mask device.

• Determine the respiratory rate.

Which of the following techniques is used when formulating the general impression

• Looking for visual clues

• Detecting odors

• Listening for unusual sounds

• All of the above

Which of the following questions will most likely elicit your patient's chief complaint?

• What made you call 911 this evening?

• How have you been feeling lately?

• Do you have any medical problems?

• Have you been drinking today?

You are approaching a young adult male lying supine on the ground with his eyes closed. You should:

• Ask him if he is okay

• expose his chest

• open his airway

• feel for a pulse

Which of the following presentations would be considered normal during the breathing phase of the primary assessment?

• Respiratory rate of 12 with adequate depth

• Respiratory rate of 6 with shallow depth

• Respiratory rate of 28 with adequate depth

• Respiratory rate of 16 with altered mental status

Your patient is a 42-year-old woman who fell two feet from a ladder and is complaining of pain in her ankle. Which of the following are you unable to determine from the information given?

• Transport priority

• Chief complaint

• Airway status

• General impression

You find a teenage male lying supine in his bedroom. You hear gurgling sounds from the patient's mouth and see vomit with pill fragments on the floor. You should:

• perform chest thrusts.

• suction the airway

• identify the pils

• ventilate with oxygen

What is a normal capillary refill time in a pediatric patient?

• 5 seconds

• 3 seconds

• 1 minute

• less than 2 seconds