EMS 131 EXAM 1 TEST BANK FULL
SOLUTION VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO PASS
●● What medication is given when a patient suffers from a medical or
traumatic condition called hypoxia?
Answer: Oxygen
●● Why would an EMT give aspirin to a patient?
Answer: Aspirin reduces the blood's ability to clot and works to prevent
further clot formation in patients suffering chest pain.
●● Nitroglycerin is indicated for which of the following chief
complaints?
Answer: chest pain
●● What is the reason for giving an epinephrine auto-injector in a life-
threatening allergic reaction?
Answer: It will help constrict the patient's blood vessels and relax the
airway passages.
●● Which of the following is a desired action of epinephrine delivered
by auto-injector?
,Answer: constriction of blood vessels
●● What is the first medication that should be administered to a patient
experiencing chest pain with difficulty breathing?
Answer: Oxygen
●● You are on the scene of a 68-year-old patient with a history of COPD
who is breathing 44 times per minute and has a diminished level of
consciousness. His wife states he has an Albuterol inhaler and
nitroglycerin tablets for angina. What is the most important drug you can
administer to the patient?
Answer: Oxygen by bag-valve mask
●● How does nitroglycerin decrease the level of chest pain that a patient
experiences?
Answer: It dilates the blood vessels, allowing more blood to enter the
heart muscle.
●● You are on the scene of a 48-year-old male patient complaining of
chest pain. He has nitroglycerin prescribed and available. After
performing your physical examination, you contact medical control and
are ordered to assist the patient in taking his nitroglycerin. Five minutes
after taking his nitroglycerin, the patient complains of being dizzy and
having a headache. You lie the patient down on the stretcher and reassess
his vital signs. He is now hypotensive. The patient is suffering from:
Answer: side effects of nitroglycerin
, ●● Which of the following BEST describes the five rights?
Answer: Right patient, right medication, right time, right dose, right
route
●● Name the type of medical direction consisting of standing orders and
protocols.
Answer: off-line
●● Your paramedic partner says the patient's IV is infiltrated and she
needs to discontinue it. What does she mean by "Infiltrated"?
Answer: The needle has either punctured the vein and excited out the
other side or has pulled out of the vein.
●● You have received an order from medical direction that you feel
would be detrimental to your patient. Which of the following should you
do?
Answer: Politely question the physician.
●● You are attempting to place a nonrebreather mask on a patient who is
experiencing difficulty breathing. The patient is anxious and does not
want the mask on his face. Which of the following is the BEST course of
action?
SOLUTION VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO PASS
●● What medication is given when a patient suffers from a medical or
traumatic condition called hypoxia?
Answer: Oxygen
●● Why would an EMT give aspirin to a patient?
Answer: Aspirin reduces the blood's ability to clot and works to prevent
further clot formation in patients suffering chest pain.
●● Nitroglycerin is indicated for which of the following chief
complaints?
Answer: chest pain
●● What is the reason for giving an epinephrine auto-injector in a life-
threatening allergic reaction?
Answer: It will help constrict the patient's blood vessels and relax the
airway passages.
●● Which of the following is a desired action of epinephrine delivered
by auto-injector?
,Answer: constriction of blood vessels
●● What is the first medication that should be administered to a patient
experiencing chest pain with difficulty breathing?
Answer: Oxygen
●● You are on the scene of a 68-year-old patient with a history of COPD
who is breathing 44 times per minute and has a diminished level of
consciousness. His wife states he has an Albuterol inhaler and
nitroglycerin tablets for angina. What is the most important drug you can
administer to the patient?
Answer: Oxygen by bag-valve mask
●● How does nitroglycerin decrease the level of chest pain that a patient
experiences?
Answer: It dilates the blood vessels, allowing more blood to enter the
heart muscle.
●● You are on the scene of a 48-year-old male patient complaining of
chest pain. He has nitroglycerin prescribed and available. After
performing your physical examination, you contact medical control and
are ordered to assist the patient in taking his nitroglycerin. Five minutes
after taking his nitroglycerin, the patient complains of being dizzy and
having a headache. You lie the patient down on the stretcher and reassess
his vital signs. He is now hypotensive. The patient is suffering from:
Answer: side effects of nitroglycerin
, ●● Which of the following BEST describes the five rights?
Answer: Right patient, right medication, right time, right dose, right
route
●● Name the type of medical direction consisting of standing orders and
protocols.
Answer: off-line
●● Your paramedic partner says the patient's IV is infiltrated and she
needs to discontinue it. What does she mean by "Infiltrated"?
Answer: The needle has either punctured the vein and excited out the
other side or has pulled out of the vein.
●● You have received an order from medical direction that you feel
would be detrimental to your patient. Which of the following should you
do?
Answer: Politely question the physician.
●● You are attempting to place a nonrebreather mask on a patient who is
experiencing difficulty breathing. The patient is anxious and does not
want the mask on his face. Which of the following is the BEST course of
action?
