PARAMEDIC NATIONAL REGISTRY LATEST 2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔CNS neoplasm - ✔✔brain and spinal cord tumor
✔✔S&S of CNS neoplasm - ✔✔weakness or paralysis or change in sensation of one or
more limbs or side of face
✔✔Multiple Scelerosis - ✔✔-Inflammation of nerve cells followed by demyelination (loss
of myelin sheaths)
- inhitbits nerve impulses
- progressive disease
✔✔S/S of multiple sclerosis - ✔✔-Visual disturbances
- diplopia (double vision)
- nystagmus (involuntary movement of eyes usually side to side)
- weakness
- impaired coordination
-speech difficulty
✔✔Guillain-Barre syndrome - ✔✔Inflammation and destruction of mylein sheath, viral,
can be fetal if diaphragm involved, usually recovers within several months
✔✔Parksinson's Disease - ✔✔Chronic and progressive disorder, impaired voluntary
movements, tremors, rigidity, impaired coordination
✔✔Delirium - ✔✔Sudden state of confusion which is reversible
✔✔Dementia - ✔✔Chronic deterioration of memory, reasoning, judgement
- usually not reversible
✔✔Cause of Wernicke encephalopathy - ✔✔Thiamine deficiency (vitamin B1)
usually in chronic alcoholic
✔✔S&S of Wernicke Encephalopathy - ✔✔-Mental confusion
-Abnormal eye movements
- Ataxia
✔✔Encephalitis - ✔✔inflammation of brain
✔✔Meningitis - ✔✔inflammation of the meninges
✔✔hydocephalus - ✔✔Buildup of fluid in ventricles of brain
, ✔✔Diverticulitis - ✔✔inflammation of punch-like herniation in the intestines
✔✔S/S of Diverticulitis - ✔✔-Fever
-nausea
-vomiting
-diarrhea
-constipation
✔✔Diverticulitis location of pain - ✔✔Usually lower left quadrant
✔✔Mallory-Weiss Tear - ✔✔esophageal tear usually due to vomiting
✔✔S/S of Mallory-Weiss Tear - ✔✔-Hematemesis (the vomiting of blood)
- Melena (dark sticky feces containing partly digested blood)
✔✔How do you transport a patient with a Mallory-Weiss Tear - ✔✔Transport in reverse
Trendelenburg position
✔✔Peritonitis - ✔✔inflammation of the peritoneum (membrane lining the abdominal
cavity and surrounding the organs within it)
✔✔Location of pain of pancreatitis - ✔✔LUQ and may radiate to back or epigastric area
✔✔S&S of pancreatitis - ✔✔-Diaphoresis
- tachycardia,
- appears acutely ill,
- sepsis
-shock
✔✔Acute renal failure - ✔✔sudden loss of kidney function due to trauma, illness or toxin
✔✔Chronic kidney failure - ✔✔long and slow process of kidneys inability to function
✔✔End-stage renal disease - ✔✔kidneys have completely and permanently shut down
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔-Located in lower part of brain above brain stem
- stimulates pituitary gland
- plays a role in sleep
- temperature
- hunger
- thirst
- B/P
- water balance
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔CNS neoplasm - ✔✔brain and spinal cord tumor
✔✔S&S of CNS neoplasm - ✔✔weakness or paralysis or change in sensation of one or
more limbs or side of face
✔✔Multiple Scelerosis - ✔✔-Inflammation of nerve cells followed by demyelination (loss
of myelin sheaths)
- inhitbits nerve impulses
- progressive disease
✔✔S/S of multiple sclerosis - ✔✔-Visual disturbances
- diplopia (double vision)
- nystagmus (involuntary movement of eyes usually side to side)
- weakness
- impaired coordination
-speech difficulty
✔✔Guillain-Barre syndrome - ✔✔Inflammation and destruction of mylein sheath, viral,
can be fetal if diaphragm involved, usually recovers within several months
✔✔Parksinson's Disease - ✔✔Chronic and progressive disorder, impaired voluntary
movements, tremors, rigidity, impaired coordination
✔✔Delirium - ✔✔Sudden state of confusion which is reversible
✔✔Dementia - ✔✔Chronic deterioration of memory, reasoning, judgement
- usually not reversible
✔✔Cause of Wernicke encephalopathy - ✔✔Thiamine deficiency (vitamin B1)
usually in chronic alcoholic
✔✔S&S of Wernicke Encephalopathy - ✔✔-Mental confusion
-Abnormal eye movements
- Ataxia
✔✔Encephalitis - ✔✔inflammation of brain
✔✔Meningitis - ✔✔inflammation of the meninges
✔✔hydocephalus - ✔✔Buildup of fluid in ventricles of brain
, ✔✔Diverticulitis - ✔✔inflammation of punch-like herniation in the intestines
✔✔S/S of Diverticulitis - ✔✔-Fever
-nausea
-vomiting
-diarrhea
-constipation
✔✔Diverticulitis location of pain - ✔✔Usually lower left quadrant
✔✔Mallory-Weiss Tear - ✔✔esophageal tear usually due to vomiting
✔✔S/S of Mallory-Weiss Tear - ✔✔-Hematemesis (the vomiting of blood)
- Melena (dark sticky feces containing partly digested blood)
✔✔How do you transport a patient with a Mallory-Weiss Tear - ✔✔Transport in reverse
Trendelenburg position
✔✔Peritonitis - ✔✔inflammation of the peritoneum (membrane lining the abdominal
cavity and surrounding the organs within it)
✔✔Location of pain of pancreatitis - ✔✔LUQ and may radiate to back or epigastric area
✔✔S&S of pancreatitis - ✔✔-Diaphoresis
- tachycardia,
- appears acutely ill,
- sepsis
-shock
✔✔Acute renal failure - ✔✔sudden loss of kidney function due to trauma, illness or toxin
✔✔Chronic kidney failure - ✔✔long and slow process of kidneys inability to function
✔✔End-stage renal disease - ✔✔kidneys have completely and permanently shut down
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔-Located in lower part of brain above brain stem
- stimulates pituitary gland
- plays a role in sleep
- temperature
- hunger
- thirst
- B/P
- water balance
