EMT FISDAP ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS 2026/2027 LATEST
UPDATE
Signs of an inadequate airway - ANS✔✔ --- No signs of breathing or air
movement
- Evidence of foreign bodies in the airway including blood, vomit, or objects
such as broken teeth
- No air can be felt or heard at the nose or mouth
- Unable to speak
- Hoarse or raspy voice
- Chest movements are absent minimal, or uneven
- Abdominal breathing
- Wheezing, stridor, snoring, gurgling, gasping
- Retractions
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, - Nasal flaring (specifically in pediatric patients)
Rules for Suctioning - ANS✔✔----Always use appropriate infection control
practices while suctioning
- Limit suctioning no longer than 10 seconds at a time
- Place the tip or catheter where you want to begin the suctioning an suction
on the way out
Respiratory Failure Signs and Symptoms - ANS✔✔ --- Altered Mental Status
- Patient has some breathing but not enough to live
- Rate and/or depth outside of normal limits
- Shallow ventilations
- Dimished or absent breath sounds
- Crowing, stridor, snoring, gurgling, gasping lung sounds
-Cyanotic
- Hypoxic
- Decreased minute volume
- Oxygen saturation <95%
Respiratory Arrest Signs and Symptoms - ANS✔✔ --- No chest or abdominal
rise and fall
No evidence of air being moved from the mouth or nose
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, - No breath sounds
Signs of Inadequate Breathing - ANS✔✔ --- AMS
- Chest movements are absent, minimal, or uneven
- Bradycardia
- Abdominal breathing
- No air can be felt or heard at the nose or mouth
-Breath sounds are diminished or absent
-Wheezing, crowing, stridor, snoring, gurgling, gasping
- Tachypnea/Bradypnea
- Prolonged inspirations
- Patient unable to speak
-Nasal flaring
Ventilate through tracheostomy via BVM - ANS✔✔---A CPR patient has a
tracheostomy. You should?
Apply direct pressure to the air, apply long backboard, O2 - ANS✔✔---A seven
year old child was struck by an automobile, you note contusion to the right chest
and a right lower fracture with arterial bleeding. Your treatment should incluse
Remove patch - ANS✔✔---What should you do before defirbrillating a patient
who has a nitroglycerin patch?
Negative Side Effects of Positive Pressure Ventilations - ANS✔✔----
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COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS 2026/2027 LATEST
UPDATE
Signs of an inadequate airway - ANS✔✔ --- No signs of breathing or air
movement
- Evidence of foreign bodies in the airway including blood, vomit, or objects
such as broken teeth
- No air can be felt or heard at the nose or mouth
- Unable to speak
- Hoarse or raspy voice
- Chest movements are absent minimal, or uneven
- Abdominal breathing
- Wheezing, stridor, snoring, gurgling, gasping
- Retractions
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, - Nasal flaring (specifically in pediatric patients)
Rules for Suctioning - ANS✔✔----Always use appropriate infection control
practices while suctioning
- Limit suctioning no longer than 10 seconds at a time
- Place the tip or catheter where you want to begin the suctioning an suction
on the way out
Respiratory Failure Signs and Symptoms - ANS✔✔ --- Altered Mental Status
- Patient has some breathing but not enough to live
- Rate and/or depth outside of normal limits
- Shallow ventilations
- Dimished or absent breath sounds
- Crowing, stridor, snoring, gurgling, gasping lung sounds
-Cyanotic
- Hypoxic
- Decreased minute volume
- Oxygen saturation <95%
Respiratory Arrest Signs and Symptoms - ANS✔✔ --- No chest or abdominal
rise and fall
No evidence of air being moved from the mouth or nose
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, - No breath sounds
Signs of Inadequate Breathing - ANS✔✔ --- AMS
- Chest movements are absent, minimal, or uneven
- Bradycardia
- Abdominal breathing
- No air can be felt or heard at the nose or mouth
-Breath sounds are diminished or absent
-Wheezing, crowing, stridor, snoring, gurgling, gasping
- Tachypnea/Bradypnea
- Prolonged inspirations
- Patient unable to speak
-Nasal flaring
Ventilate through tracheostomy via BVM - ANS✔✔---A CPR patient has a
tracheostomy. You should?
Apply direct pressure to the air, apply long backboard, O2 - ANS✔✔---A seven
year old child was struck by an automobile, you note contusion to the right chest
and a right lower fracture with arterial bleeding. Your treatment should incluse
Remove patch - ANS✔✔---What should you do before defirbrillating a patient
who has a nitroglycerin patch?
Negative Side Effects of Positive Pressure Ventilations - ANS✔✔----
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