HOSA EMT (2025/ 2026 ) QS & AS| GRADE A| 100% CORRECT (VERIFIED ANSWERS)

HOSA EMT (2025/ 2026 ) QS & AS| GRADE A| 100% CORRECT (VERIFIED ANSWERS) Four emergency ways to drag a patient - ANS clothing, blanket, arm, firefighters Cricoid pressure - ANS shouldn't be used during cardiac arrect What can determine an obstruction of the airway - ANS abnormal sounds Compression rate - ANS 100 compressions per min Braxton Hicks contractions - ANS Irregular prelabour contractions of the uterus Placenta previa - ANS Condition in which the placenta is formed in an abnormal location that will not allow for normal delivery of the foetus causing an excessive amount of pre-birth bleeding Preeclampsia - ANS A complication of pregnancy in which the women retains large amounts of fluid and has hypertension. She may also experience seizures and or comas during birth which is very dangerous to the infant Premature infant - ANS Any newborn wingless in 5 1/2 pounds or born before the 37th week of pregnancy Amount of blood in adult - ANS 4 Litres Amount of blood in a newborn - ANS 335 ml AVPU - ANS Alert voice pain unresponsiveness Hyphemia - ANS Blood that is in front of the eye Hypoxia - ANS Insufficient amount of oxygen in the body's tissues Diaphoretic - ANS Induced perspiration Avulsion - ANS Flaps of skin and tissue are torn loose or pulled off completely Hematoma - ANS Swelling of blood Phlebo- - ANS Vein Cephalo- - ANS Head Entero- - ANS Intestines PCR - ANS Patient Care Report Dilated pupils - ANS May indicate , blood loss, drugs, prescription eyedrops Constricted pupils - ANS Drugs (narcotics), prescription eyedrops Unequal pupils - ANS Stroke, head injury, artificial eye, prescription eyedrops Lack of reactivity in the pupils - ANS Drugs, lack of oxygen to the brain Where do you palpate last - ANS The area that the patient indicated was hurting Jaundice - ANS Deliver becomes overwhelmed by the breakdown in red blood cells resulting in the yellowish pigmentation of body tissue Renal failure - ANS Occurs when kidneys lose their ability to adequately filter the blood and remove toxins in excess fluid from the body Dialysis - ANS The process by which toxins in excess fluid are removed from the body by medical system independent of the kidney