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Answer: D
1) For life to be
A) INCORRECT. The term hypoperfusion refers to
maintained, a balance of
inadequate delivery of oxygen and nutrients to body
oxygen and carbon
tissues.
dioxide is needed. The
B) INCORRECT. The condition of having higher than
condition when oxygen
normal levels of carbon dioxide in the blood is called
levels are low is called:
hypercapnia.
A) hypoperfusion.
C) INCORRECT. A breathing rate that is too rapid to
B) hypercapnia.
maintain proper carbon dioxide levels is called
C) hyperventilation.
hyperventilation.
D) hypoxia.
D) CORRECT. The brain and body cells need a steady
supply of oxygen to accomplish the tasks of everyday
Page Ref: 243
living. Low levels of oxygen, or hypoxia, will disrupt
Objective: 10.3
normal function.
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2) What are the signs of Answer: B
hypoxia? A) INCORRECT. A patient with hypoxia will not
A) Warm dry skin, difficulty present with warm, dry skin and hypertension.
breathing, and B) CORRECT. Hypoxia will cause the patient's skin to
hypertension have an ashen, bluish appearance and the patient's
B) Cyanosis (blue or gray mental status will be severely impaired.
skin) and deterioration of C) INCORRECT. Hypoxia is the result of inadequate
the patient's mental status breathing and perfusion, not the cause of it.
C) Disease process that D) INCORRECT. Irreversible shock caused by lack of
robs the patient of blood is not the definition of hypoxia, nor is it a sign
adequate breathing and of it.
perfusion
D) Irreversible shock
caused by the lack of
blood flowing to the vital
organs like the brain and
heart
Page Ref: 250
Objective: 10.4
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3) What signs and Answer: D
symptoms would indicate A) INCORRECT. Other than an increased effort to
inadequate breathing in a breathe, the other signs and symptoms indicate
patient? normal breathing.
A) Increased effort to B) INCORRECT. A normal mental status is not
breathe, increased depth indicative of inadequate breathing.
of respiration, normal skin, C) INCORRECT. Inadequate breathing will not cause
normal mental status normal mental status.
B) Rapid breathing, pale D) CORRECT. Inadequate breathing can cause a
skin, and normal mental patient to present with an altered mental status,
status cyanosis, clammy skin, and increased effort to
C) Decreased depth of breathe.
respiration, decreased
rate of breathing, clammy
skin, normal mental status
D) Increased effort to
breathe, cyanosis, clammy
skin, altered mental status
Page Ref: 245
Objective: 10.3
4) When assessing a A) CORRECT. The first thing that an EMT must
patient's breathing, what is determine when assessing a patient's breathing is
your first question? whether or not the patient is breathing.
A) Is he breathing? B) INCORRECT. Determining life status is not the first
B) Is he alive or dead? step in assessing a patient's breathing.
C) Is his breathing C) INCORRECT. The adequacy of the breathing is not
adequate or inadequate? the first thing that an EMT must determine when
D) Is he seriously ill or assessing a patient's breathing.
mildly ill? D) INCORRECT. Although a patient's breathing can
provide clues about his overall condition, this is not
Page Ref: 248 the first breathing assessment question that an EMT
Objective: 10.4 must ask.
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5) Why is inhalation Answer: C
described as an active A) INCORRECT. The term active indicates effort or the
process? expense of energy, the diaphragm relaxing does not
A) It requires the use energy.
diaphragm to relax and B) INCORRECT. The chest muscles do not relax during
use energy to move, inhalation.
creating a negative C) CORRECT. Inhalation is an active process. The
pressure. muscles of the chest contract at the same time the
B) It requires chest diaphragm contracts in a downward motion. These
muscles to relax and use movements increase the size of the
energy to move, creating a chest cavity and create a negative pressure.
positive pressure. D) INCORRECT. The contraction of the diaphragm
C) It requires chest creates negative pressure, not positive pressure.
muscles to contract and
use energy to move,
creating a negative
pressure.
D) It requires the
diaphragm to contract and
use energy to move,
creating a positive
pressure.
Page Ref: 239
Objective: 10.5
6) The process of air Answer: D
moving in and out of the A) INCORRECT. The amount of air moved in one in-
chest is called: and-out respiratory cycle is known as the tidal volume.
A) tidal volume. B) INCORRECT. Inhalation refers just to the process of
B) inhalation. air moving into the body.
C) respiration. C) INCORRECT. Respiration refers to the exchange of
D) ventilation. gases between the alveoli and the blood and
between the blood and the cells.
Page Ref: 239 D) CORRECT. Air is moved into and out of the chest in
Objective: 10.5 a process called ventilation.
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Terms in this set (228)
Answer: D
1) For life to be
A) INCORRECT. The term hypoperfusion refers to
maintained, a balance of
inadequate delivery of oxygen and nutrients to body
oxygen and carbon
tissues.
dioxide is needed. The
B) INCORRECT. The condition of having higher than
condition when oxygen
normal levels of carbon dioxide in the blood is called
levels are low is called:
hypercapnia.
A) hypoperfusion.
C) INCORRECT. A breathing rate that is too rapid to
B) hypercapnia.
maintain proper carbon dioxide levels is called
C) hyperventilation.
hyperventilation.
D) hypoxia.
D) CORRECT. The brain and body cells need a steady
supply of oxygen to accomplish the tasks of everyday
Page Ref: 243
living. Low levels of oxygen, or hypoxia, will disrupt
Objective: 10.3
normal function.
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2) What are the signs of Answer: B
hypoxia? A) INCORRECT. A patient with hypoxia will not
A) Warm dry skin, difficulty present with warm, dry skin and hypertension.
breathing, and B) CORRECT. Hypoxia will cause the patient's skin to
hypertension have an ashen, bluish appearance and the patient's
B) Cyanosis (blue or gray mental status will be severely impaired.
skin) and deterioration of C) INCORRECT. Hypoxia is the result of inadequate
the patient's mental status breathing and perfusion, not the cause of it.
C) Disease process that D) INCORRECT. Irreversible shock caused by lack of
robs the patient of blood is not the definition of hypoxia, nor is it a sign
adequate breathing and of it.
perfusion
D) Irreversible shock
caused by the lack of
blood flowing to the vital
organs like the brain and
heart
Page Ref: 250
Objective: 10.4
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3) What signs and Answer: D
symptoms would indicate A) INCORRECT. Other than an increased effort to
inadequate breathing in a breathe, the other signs and symptoms indicate
patient? normal breathing.
A) Increased effort to B) INCORRECT. A normal mental status is not
breathe, increased depth indicative of inadequate breathing.
of respiration, normal skin, C) INCORRECT. Inadequate breathing will not cause
normal mental status normal mental status.
B) Rapid breathing, pale D) CORRECT. Inadequate breathing can cause a
skin, and normal mental patient to present with an altered mental status,
status cyanosis, clammy skin, and increased effort to
C) Decreased depth of breathe.
respiration, decreased
rate of breathing, clammy
skin, normal mental status
D) Increased effort to
breathe, cyanosis, clammy
skin, altered mental status
Page Ref: 245
Objective: 10.3
4) When assessing a A) CORRECT. The first thing that an EMT must
patient's breathing, what is determine when assessing a patient's breathing is
your first question? whether or not the patient is breathing.
A) Is he breathing? B) INCORRECT. Determining life status is not the first
B) Is he alive or dead? step in assessing a patient's breathing.
C) Is his breathing C) INCORRECT. The adequacy of the breathing is not
adequate or inadequate? the first thing that an EMT must determine when
D) Is he seriously ill or assessing a patient's breathing.
mildly ill? D) INCORRECT. Although a patient's breathing can
provide clues about his overall condition, this is not
Page Ref: 248 the first breathing assessment question that an EMT
Objective: 10.4 must ask.
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5) Why is inhalation Answer: C
described as an active A) INCORRECT. The term active indicates effort or the
process? expense of energy, the diaphragm relaxing does not
A) It requires the use energy.
diaphragm to relax and B) INCORRECT. The chest muscles do not relax during
use energy to move, inhalation.
creating a negative C) CORRECT. Inhalation is an active process. The
pressure. muscles of the chest contract at the same time the
B) It requires chest diaphragm contracts in a downward motion. These
muscles to relax and use movements increase the size of the
energy to move, creating a chest cavity and create a negative pressure.
positive pressure. D) INCORRECT. The contraction of the diaphragm
C) It requires chest creates negative pressure, not positive pressure.
muscles to contract and
use energy to move,
creating a negative
pressure.
D) It requires the
diaphragm to contract and
use energy to move,
creating a positive
pressure.
Page Ref: 239
Objective: 10.5
6) The process of air Answer: D
moving in and out of the A) INCORRECT. The amount of air moved in one in-
chest is called: and-out respiratory cycle is known as the tidal volume.
A) tidal volume. B) INCORRECT. Inhalation refers just to the process of
B) inhalation. air moving into the body.
C) respiration. C) INCORRECT. Respiration refers to the exchange of
D) ventilation. gases between the alveoli and the blood and
between the blood and the cells.
Page Ref: 239 D) CORRECT. Air is moved into and out of the chest in
Objective: 10.5 a process called ventilation.
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