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emt general knowledge part 1

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to the current AHA guidelines how many milliliters of tidal volume should you deliver via BVM to an adult patient who is apneic?

a)

80mL - 100mL

b)

100mL-500mL

c)

500mL-1000mL

d)

Just enough to give adequate chest rise

2.

When assessing the patient's pupils with a light, which of the following is NOT assessed?

a)

Reflectivity

b)

Size

c)

Equality

d)

Reactivity

3.

The pediatric assessment triangle is composed of three elements

a)

Level of consciousness, Quality of Respirations, General appearance

b)

Muscle tone, respiratory depth and rate, perfusion

c)

Circulation, appearance, work of breathing

d)

blood pressure, pulse rate, respiratory rate

4.

You are called to the scene of a structure fire. Upon arrival you notice several people staggering down the block away from the fire with soot marks around their mouths. You should?

a)

Tell them to stay where they are and wait until you come back

b)

Call for additional ambulances and continue to assess the scene

c)

Treat them immediately and find out if there are others in the building

d)

Get ready for the building to explode because it could be a meth lab

5.

Which of the following patients has adequate respiration

a)

55 y/o woman with paradoxical chest expansion at 22 bpm

b)

31 y/o man breathing at 20 bpm and slightly irregular

c)

6 month old child who is breathing at 22 bpm

d)

a 10 y/o who is breathing with accessory muscle at 30 per minute

6.

You have just arrived on scene to a call of man down. A man is lying prone on the sidewalk outside of a bar and there are several bystanders who say they witnessed him just fall over forward. As you check his pulse and respirations you find that he is breathing shallow at about 8 per minute and his pulse is 112. What would be the proper choice of action?

a)

Shake him to see if he wake up, take his blood pressure, and put a c-collar on him

b)

While maintaining c-spine precautions log roll him to a supine position and open his airway

c)

Do a rapid trauma assessment and then take his blood pressure

d)

Ask the bystanders if he had been drinking and then log roll him onto a backboard

7.

Use of an SpO2 monitor on a person suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning will be inaccurate because

a)

The oxygen has stronger bonding properties than the CO2 molecule

b)

CO2 is odorless and tasteless so the monitor cannot detect it

c)

Carbon monoxide has a weaker bond with the hemoglobin

d)

The carbon monoxide molecule displaces the oxygen molecule inhibiting oxygen delivery

8.

A man has both legs burned on the front and back, along with the fronts of both arms. Approximately what percentage of his body was burned?

a)

36% BSA

b)

45% BSA

c)

50% BSA

d)

bruh IDK

9.

Your patient is a 41 year old female who was found lying prone in the kitchen. She does not appear to be conscious and there is a pool of saliva next to her head. You and your partner log roll her into a supine position while maintaining c-spine stabilization. Just as you get the woman rolled over her husband tells you that she has a previous history of heart attacks. What would be the most appropriate course of action to take next?

a)

Have your partner get the AED, attach it to the patient, and analzye

b)

Verify a palpable pulse, attach the AED, and prepare to analyze

c)

Do a jaw thrust to open her airway

d)

Give her a sternal rub to verify consciousness

10.

You arrive on scene to find a 34-year-old male lying on the ground in a pool of blood. Bright, red blood is spurting from a large cut in his shirt sleeve and he is clutching a knife between his teeth. What should you do first?

a)

Have your partner distract the patient, while you take the knife from him

b)

Inform the patient you will not hurt him and treat the injury

c)

Call for police to backup and then treat the wound

d)

Leave the scene until police arrive to make the scene safe

11.

You arrive on scene with your partner to transport a patient that has been throwing up blood that looked like coffee grounds. This sign would lead you to believe that this patient has?

a)

Esophageal varices

b)

GI bleed

c)

Pancytopenia

d)

Appendicitis

12.

A 73 year old female was in her backyard gardening when she collapsed to the ground. Her husband told 911 that "she is breathing very fast and will not talk to me." You arrive to find the woman lying on her side in the grass. She is breathing at 7 breaths per minute and her pulse is irregular and thready. Her lungs also present with crackles upon auscultation As you are taking a blood pressure (88/66) the husband tells you that the woman has been having jaw pain and some weakness for approximately 3 days. What is the most likely cause of this woman's condition and how would you treat her?

a)

Hypoperfusion, High flow O2, and transport in Fowler's position

b)

Cardiac arrest, treat for shock, and rapid transport

c)

Cardiogenic shock, assist ventilations, and transport

d)

Septic shock, transport in a position of comfort with high flow O2 via NRB

13.

A trauma patient cannot feel anything in his body from the nipple level down. The level of spinal cord injury is likely at?

a)

C6

b)

T1

c)

L4

d)

T10

14.

You are assessing a patient with blunt chest trauma. You notice that the patient has diminished sounds over the left side of his chest. Which of the following would lead you to suspect hemothorax over pneumothorax?

a)

Difficulty breathing

b)

Distended neck veins

c)

Hyporesonance to percussion

d)

Diminished sounds are in the apex of the lung

15.

While in the ambulance reassessing a patient with a splinted tibia and fibula fracture you can't locate a distal pulse in the injured extremity. The patient did have a distal pulse after application of the splint. To address this situation you should:

a)

Remove the splint completely and reassess for a pulse

b)

Loose the splint slightly

c)

Attempt to manipulate the extremity

d)

Assume the pulse is present but masked by swelling.

16.

List the four chambers of the heart (Abbreviations)

(a)  

17.

What does the mnemonic DCAP - BTLS stand for?

(a)