Paramedic Entry Exam Study Guide
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Factors that can declare a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) -
correct answer ✅3 or more patients; any situation that places such
a great demand on available equipment and personnel
START Triage system: -
correct answer ✅Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment; limited
assessment of a patient ability to walk, respiratory status,
hemodynamic status, and neurologic status.
Spinal Immobilization of a pregnant woman: -
correct answer ✅using a long spine board with the board tilted left
Splinting devices for a patient with bilateral injuries: -
correct answer ✅Backboard
Signs and symptoms of hemorrhagic shock: -
correct answer ✅low blood volume, Tachycardia, pale cool, and
clammy skin, tachypnea(rapid respirations), restlessness, agitation,
and hypotension.
Determine a patient's level of consciousness: -
correct answer ✅Utilize the AVPU scale. (Awake and Alert, Verbal
,Paramedic Entry Exam Study Guide
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Stimuli, Painful Stimuli, Unresponsive; using AxO questions,
(Person, Place, Time, Event
Rapid Trauma Assessment -
correct answer ✅main goal is to find and determine any life
threats and treat them. Determine LOC, and assess airway,
breathing, and circulation.
Focused Patient Assessment: -
correct answer ✅physical assessment that is typically performed
on patients who have sustained nonsignificant mechanisms of
injury or on responsive medical patients. Based on chief complaint
and focuses on one body system or part.
Where to Palpate for a pulse on an unconscious patient: -
correct answer ✅PREFERRED place to palpate is the CAROTID
ARTERY in UNCONSCIOUS PTs.
Priority of injuries on a trauma patient -
correct answer ✅priority is to determine the life threats making
sure to assess the Airway(clear and patent), breathing(rate, rhythm,
quality), and circulation(Mental status, pulse rate rhythm, and
quality, skin condition.; Possibly CABs, check for major bleeds and
,Paramedic Entry Exam Study Guide
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
address any life-threatening bleeds before moving to clearing the
airway and assessing breathing.
Treatment of a burn patient-superficial burns -
correct answer ✅only affect the epidermis; Burn Centers are
recommended for pts with 10% BSA or greater, full-thickness, burns
to hands, face, or genitalia. Chemical, and electrical burns.
Inhalation injuries.;large dry, sterile dressing. Treat for shock
Treatment of a burn patient deep burns -
correct answer ✅Deep Burns(partial thickness)-burns that affect
the epidermis and part of the dermis but not the subcutaneous
tissue. Characterized by blisters and skin that is white to red,
mottling
Deep Burns(total thickness)- Burns that affect all skin layers and
may affect the subcutaneous layers, muscle, bone, and internal
organs leaving a dry, leathery white, brown, or charred.
Signs, symptoms, and treatment of a patient with a dislocated joint:
-
correct answer ✅Deformity, Swelling, pain aggravated by
movement, tenderness on palpation, loss of normal joint motion,
numbness or impaired circulation in limb or fingers
, Paramedic Entry Exam Study Guide
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Treatment: Stabilize in the position of comfort using a splint, sling,
or brace.
How to splint an injured joint or fractured bone -
correct answer ✅inspect the area for DCAP-BTLS; Assess pts
neurovascular status distal to the site; Cover open wounds with a
dry, sterile dressing before splinting.; Do not move pt before
splinting an extremity; stabilize the joints above and below the
fracture; stabilize the bones above and below the injured joint.
Pad all rigid splints;maintain manual stabilization to minimize
movement;use constant, gentle manual traction to align the limb so
that it can be splinted.;any resistance to limb alignment, splint the
limb in its deformed position.
Immobilize all suspected spinal injuries in a neutral inline position
on the backboard
Treat for signs of shock.
Signs and symptoms of a spinal cord injury: -
correct answer ✅numbness,
Tingling, loss of changes in sensation in hands and feet.
Paralysis; Pain or pressure in the head, neck, or back,
loss of movement.
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Factors that can declare a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) -
correct answer ✅3 or more patients; any situation that places such
a great demand on available equipment and personnel
START Triage system: -
correct answer ✅Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment; limited
assessment of a patient ability to walk, respiratory status,
hemodynamic status, and neurologic status.
Spinal Immobilization of a pregnant woman: -
correct answer ✅using a long spine board with the board tilted left
Splinting devices for a patient with bilateral injuries: -
correct answer ✅Backboard
Signs and symptoms of hemorrhagic shock: -
correct answer ✅low blood volume, Tachycardia, pale cool, and
clammy skin, tachypnea(rapid respirations), restlessness, agitation,
and hypotension.
Determine a patient's level of consciousness: -
correct answer ✅Utilize the AVPU scale. (Awake and Alert, Verbal
,Paramedic Entry Exam Study Guide
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Stimuli, Painful Stimuli, Unresponsive; using AxO questions,
(Person, Place, Time, Event
Rapid Trauma Assessment -
correct answer ✅main goal is to find and determine any life
threats and treat them. Determine LOC, and assess airway,
breathing, and circulation.
Focused Patient Assessment: -
correct answer ✅physical assessment that is typically performed
on patients who have sustained nonsignificant mechanisms of
injury or on responsive medical patients. Based on chief complaint
and focuses on one body system or part.
Where to Palpate for a pulse on an unconscious patient: -
correct answer ✅PREFERRED place to palpate is the CAROTID
ARTERY in UNCONSCIOUS PTs.
Priority of injuries on a trauma patient -
correct answer ✅priority is to determine the life threats making
sure to assess the Airway(clear and patent), breathing(rate, rhythm,
quality), and circulation(Mental status, pulse rate rhythm, and
quality, skin condition.; Possibly CABs, check for major bleeds and
,Paramedic Entry Exam Study Guide
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
address any life-threatening bleeds before moving to clearing the
airway and assessing breathing.
Treatment of a burn patient-superficial burns -
correct answer ✅only affect the epidermis; Burn Centers are
recommended for pts with 10% BSA or greater, full-thickness, burns
to hands, face, or genitalia. Chemical, and electrical burns.
Inhalation injuries.;large dry, sterile dressing. Treat for shock
Treatment of a burn patient deep burns -
correct answer ✅Deep Burns(partial thickness)-burns that affect
the epidermis and part of the dermis but not the subcutaneous
tissue. Characterized by blisters and skin that is white to red,
mottling
Deep Burns(total thickness)- Burns that affect all skin layers and
may affect the subcutaneous layers, muscle, bone, and internal
organs leaving a dry, leathery white, brown, or charred.
Signs, symptoms, and treatment of a patient with a dislocated joint:
-
correct answer ✅Deformity, Swelling, pain aggravated by
movement, tenderness on palpation, loss of normal joint motion,
numbness or impaired circulation in limb or fingers
, Paramedic Entry Exam Study Guide
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Treatment: Stabilize in the position of comfort using a splint, sling,
or brace.
How to splint an injured joint or fractured bone -
correct answer ✅inspect the area for DCAP-BTLS; Assess pts
neurovascular status distal to the site; Cover open wounds with a
dry, sterile dressing before splinting.; Do not move pt before
splinting an extremity; stabilize the joints above and below the
fracture; stabilize the bones above and below the injured joint.
Pad all rigid splints;maintain manual stabilization to minimize
movement;use constant, gentle manual traction to align the limb so
that it can be splinted.;any resistance to limb alignment, splint the
limb in its deformed position.
Immobilize all suspected spinal injuries in a neutral inline position
on the backboard
Treat for signs of shock.
Signs and symptoms of a spinal cord injury: -
correct answer ✅numbness,
Tingling, loss of changes in sensation in hands and feet.
Paralysis; Pain or pressure in the head, neck, or back,
loss of movement.
