2024 Paramedic Entry Exam Study Guide with Questions and Correct Answers

Factors that can declare a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) 3 or more patients; any situation that places such a great demand on available equipment and personnel START Triage system: 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: using a long spine board with the board tilted left Splinting devices for a patient with bilateral injuries: Backboard Signs and symptoms of hemorrhagic shock: low blood volume, Tachycardia, pale cool, and clammy skin, tachypnea(rapid respirations), restlessness, agitation, and hypotension. Determine a patient's level of consciousness: Utilize the AVPU scale. (Awake and Alert, Verbal Stimuli, Painful Stimuli, Unresponsive; using AxO questions, (Person, Place, Time, Event Rapid Trauma Assessment main goal is to find and determine any life threats and treat them. Determine LOC, and assess airway, breathing, and circulation. Focused Patient Assessment: 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: PREFERRED place to palpate is the CAROTID ARTERY in UNCONSCIOUS PTs. Priority of injuries on a trauma patient 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 address any life-threatening bleeds before moving to clearing the airway and assessing breathing. Treatment of a burn patient-superficial burns only affect the epidermis; Burn Centers are recommended for pts with 10% BSA or greater, full-thickness, burns to hands, face,