JB EMT Final Exam 2 2023/ 78 Questions
with 100% correct Answers.
If a patient has an arterial bleed between the meninges and the cranial bones....where is
the bleed? - -Epidural
-Chest pain may be absent in certain patients. - -Geriatric/Diabetic
-What should the systolic BP be prior to administering Nitroglycerin? - -120
-How many vertebrae are there? - -33 (7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, 4
coccygeal)
-Which pairs of ribs are most commonly fractured? - -4th-10th or 4th-9th ribs are most
common, 1st &3rd are associated with high energy trauma
-What type of breathing is seen with a flail chest? - -Paradoxical Breathing
-What happens when brain tissue is damaged? - -Disability/Death
-Know all the arterial (pulse) areas. Where are they located? - -Temporal: It is felt in
the head.
Carotid: It is felt in the neck.
Branchial: It is felt in the elbow.
Femoral: It is felt at the groin.
Radial: It is felt on the wrist.
Popliteal: It is felt on the knee.
Dorsalis pedis: It is felt on the foot.
-Know all the burns and how they are identifiable. - -1st: Red Infamed
2nd: Blisters/ Extreme Pain
, 3rd: Charred/ Little to no pain
-Know the skin color, temperature, condition of hypoglycemia / hyperglycemia. Which
one is insulin
shock / diabetic coma? - -Cool and clammy
Hot and dry
Insulin shock: Hypo
Diabetic Coma: Hyper
-Which blood cells are responsible for O2 transport? To fight infection. To clot? - -Red
White
Platelets
-What is electromechanical dissociation? - -PEA- Pulseless Electrical Activity
-When can you give a patient oral glucose? - -If they are able to swallow
Below 60 mg/dL
-Signs of pre-eclampsia vs eclampsia - -Headache, Swelling, Visual Disturbances
Seizures
-What is the Good Samaritan law? Standard of care? Article 30? - -Protecting regular
people from a lawsuit
Manner in which the Emt must act or behave
Allows EMS to operate under medical cont
-Definition of COPD, Congestive Heart Failure, CVA, pericardial tamponade - -Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Diasease - Lung Disease
Heart Failure
Stroke
Fluid around the heart
with 100% correct Answers.
If a patient has an arterial bleed between the meninges and the cranial bones....where is
the bleed? - -Epidural
-Chest pain may be absent in certain patients. - -Geriatric/Diabetic
-What should the systolic BP be prior to administering Nitroglycerin? - -120
-How many vertebrae are there? - -33 (7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, 4
coccygeal)
-Which pairs of ribs are most commonly fractured? - -4th-10th or 4th-9th ribs are most
common, 1st &3rd are associated with high energy trauma
-What type of breathing is seen with a flail chest? - -Paradoxical Breathing
-What happens when brain tissue is damaged? - -Disability/Death
-Know all the arterial (pulse) areas. Where are they located? - -Temporal: It is felt in
the head.
Carotid: It is felt in the neck.
Branchial: It is felt in the elbow.
Femoral: It is felt at the groin.
Radial: It is felt on the wrist.
Popliteal: It is felt on the knee.
Dorsalis pedis: It is felt on the foot.
-Know all the burns and how they are identifiable. - -1st: Red Infamed
2nd: Blisters/ Extreme Pain
, 3rd: Charred/ Little to no pain
-Know the skin color, temperature, condition of hypoglycemia / hyperglycemia. Which
one is insulin
shock / diabetic coma? - -Cool and clammy
Hot and dry
Insulin shock: Hypo
Diabetic Coma: Hyper
-Which blood cells are responsible for O2 transport? To fight infection. To clot? - -Red
White
Platelets
-What is electromechanical dissociation? - -PEA- Pulseless Electrical Activity
-When can you give a patient oral glucose? - -If they are able to swallow
Below 60 mg/dL
-Signs of pre-eclampsia vs eclampsia - -Headache, Swelling, Visual Disturbances
Seizures
-What is the Good Samaritan law? Standard of care? Article 30? - -Protecting regular
people from a lawsuit
Manner in which the Emt must act or behave
Allows EMS to operate under medical cont
-Definition of COPD, Congestive Heart Failure, CVA, pericardial tamponade - -Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Diasease - Lung Disease
Heart Failure
Stroke
Fluid around the heart
