EMT FISDAP Final Exam 2025 Update |QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|Frequently MOST TESTED Questions| GET IT RIGHT!! Final Exam
What is the rate in which you should be providing positive pressure ventilations with BVM? ✔️10-12 breaths per min
Best way to ventilate with single recuer? ✔️pocket mask
best way to ventilate with 2 rescuers? ✔️BVM hooked up to O2
If PT is slow to respond, little chest rise and fall and retraction? ✔️Need to use BVM
If ventilating, and chest doesn't rise, what's the next step? ✔️Reposition head
Where does stridor sounds come from? ✔️High pitch, blockage in larynx/trachea (tongue/item)
Where does wheezing sounds come from? ✔️high pitch, constriction in smaller air passages (asthma)
Where does Rhonchi sounds come from? ✔️low pitch, raddling in the lungs (COPD, emphysema, pneumonia)
Where do rales sounds come from? ✔️crackles/popping (fluid in lungs, pulmonary edema secondary to left-sided CHF)
O2 levels for NC ✔️2-6
O2 levels for NRB ✔️10-15
O2 levels for BVM ✔️15-25
O2 levels for NEB ✔️6-8
Proper suctioning technique and what to do if they keep vomiting? ✔️10-15 sec, suction on no more than 200mLHg, roll to side if need be
What to do if choking victim ✔️are you choking, nonresponsive/apneic start chest compressions, responsive ab thrust, pregnant woman
Seizure PTs ✔️Keep safe, open airway, suction airway, use NPA of needed POST Seizure
s/s of pulmonary embolism ✔️recent travel/surgery, skin discoloration, leg pain/swelling
S/S of CHF ✔️Edema, rales/crackles, feeling of drowning, can't lay flat
s/s of asthma exacerbation ✔️Sudden onset SOB, wheezing
S/S of spontaneous pneumothorax ✔️Sudden onset SOB, diminished or absent lung sounds
s/s of pneumonia ✔️ronchi, fever, coughing up blood, night sweats, put on N95 mask (self), surgical mask (PT)
S/S of chronic bronchitis ✔️SOB, diminished lung sounds, thick mucus, barrel chested
S/S of TB ✔️SOB, coughing up blood, night sweats, put on N95 mask (self), surgical mask (pt)
S/S of internal bleeding ✔️weak/rapid pulse, distended abdomen, s/s shock
S/S of bowel obstruction ✔️severe abdominal pain, lower abdominal rigidity
S/S of GI bleed ✔️Ab pain, distention, black tarry stool and coffee grind emesis
S/S of pancreatitis ✔️n/v, abdominal pain, alcoholic
s/s of pulmonary contusion ✔️trauma to chest, SOB, coughing up blood
S/S of AAA ✔️Tearing pain in back, SOB, pale, diaphoretic, left radial pulse stronger than right
S/S of flail chest ✔️SOB, paradoxical movement
S/S of a Tension pneumothorax ✔️Chest trauma, +JVD and tracheal deviation
S/S of subcutaneous emphysema ✔️popping sensation with palpation to chest and neck region
What is the rate in which you should be providing positive pressure ventilations with BVM? ✔️10-12 breaths per min
Best way to ventilate with single recuer? ✔️pocket mask
best way to ventilate with 2 rescuers? ✔️BVM hooked up to O2
If PT is slow to respond, little chest rise and fall and retraction? ✔️Need to use BVM
If ventilating, and chest doesn't rise, what's the next step? ✔️Reposition head
Where does stridor sounds come from? ✔️High pitch, blockage in larynx/trachea (tongue/item)
Where does wheezing sounds come from? ✔️high pitch, constriction in smaller air passages (asthma)
Where does Rhonchi sounds come from? ✔️low pitch, raddling in the lungs (COPD, emphysema, pneumonia)
Where do rales sounds come from? ✔️crackles/popping (fluid in lungs, pulmonary edema secondary to left-sided CHF)
O2 levels for NC ✔️2-6
O2 levels for NRB ✔️10-15
O2 levels for BVM ✔️15-25
O2 levels for NEB ✔️6-8
Proper suctioning technique and what to do if they keep vomiting? ✔️10-15 sec, suction on no more than 200mLHg, roll to side if need be
What to do if choking victim ✔️are you choking, nonresponsive/apneic start chest compressions, responsive ab thrust, pregnant woman
Seizure PTs ✔️Keep safe, open airway, suction airway, use NPA of needed POST Seizure
s/s of pulmonary embolism ✔️recent travel/surgery, skin discoloration, leg pain/swelling
S/S of CHF ✔️Edema, rales/crackles, feeling of drowning, can't lay flat
s/s of asthma exacerbation ✔️Sudden onset SOB, wheezing
S/S of spontaneous pneumothorax ✔️Sudden onset SOB, diminished or absent lung sounds
s/s of pneumonia ✔️ronchi, fever, coughing up blood, night sweats, put on N95 mask (self), surgical mask (PT)
S/S of chronic bronchitis ✔️SOB, diminished lung sounds, thick mucus, barrel chested
S/S of TB ✔️SOB, coughing up blood, night sweats, put on N95 mask (self), surgical mask (pt)
S/S of internal bleeding ✔️weak/rapid pulse, distended abdomen, s/s shock
S/S of bowel obstruction ✔️severe abdominal pain, lower abdominal rigidity
S/S of GI bleed ✔️Ab pain, distention, black tarry stool and coffee grind emesis
S/S of pancreatitis ✔️n/v, abdominal pain, alcoholic
s/s of pulmonary contusion ✔️trauma to chest, SOB, coughing up blood
S/S of AAA ✔️Tearing pain in back, SOB, pale, diaphoretic, left radial pulse stronger than right
S/S of flail chest ✔️SOB, paradoxical movement
S/S of a Tension pneumothorax ✔️Chest trauma, +JVD and tracheal deviation
S/S of subcutaneous emphysema ✔️popping sensation with palpation to chest and neck region
