HLTH 210 Final Review Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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HLTH 210 Final Review Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers

Question: The following are guideline for you to follow when arriving at
an emergency scene. Which of the following should you do first?

Ans✅ ✅: Take time to evaluate the scene.

Question: Any body part that is toward the midline of the body is called

Ans✅ ✅: medial

Question: You expect to use the jaw-thrust (without head extension)
maneuver to open the airway for which patient?

Ans✅ ✅: A patient who has fallen onto his or her back from greater than a standing
height

Question: While performing your primary assessment, you determine
that more advanced medical personnel need to be summoned. Which
finding is least likely to indicate the need for such action?

Ans✅ ✅: Blood oozing from a wound

Question: You arrive on the scene of an emergency in which a middle-
aged woman has fallen down the steps while trying to escape a fire in the
building. She is lying at the base of the steps and is unresponsive. You
notice a small laceration on her forehead and a visible deformity of her
left leg. The area is beginning to fill with smoke. Which technique is most
appropriate for you to use to move this patient?

Ans✅ ✅: clothes drag

Question: Your assessment reveals that the patient is able to
acknowledge your presence and answer your questions. Using the AVPU
mnemonic, you should describe his LOC as which of following?

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Ans✅ ✅: A-Alert

Question: When assessing a patient's rate and quality of breathing,
which of the following is the least appropriate action?

Ans✅ ✅: Inform the patient that you will be counting her breaths

Question: Which of the following is considered battery?

Ans✅ ✅: Checking the pulse of a patient who has just told you that he or she does
not want treatment

Question: Good Samaritan laws generally protect people from legal
liability when providing care in an emergency if they do which of the
following?

Ans✅ ✅: B)

Act in good faith within the scope of their training

Question: Which of the following breathing rates should you identify as
abnormal for an adult?

Ans✅ ✅: 8 breaths per minute

Question: You are providing emergency care to a patient based on
standing orders. You recognize this as which type of medical control?

Ans✅ ✅: indirect

Question: You are using the DOTS mnemonic while assessing a patient
who has been stabbed. You note distention in the patient's upper right
quadrant. You identify this as belonging to which component?

Ans✅ ✅: S-Swelling

Question: as an emergency medical responder (EMR), you are expected
to provide care based on specific criteria. This is call -

Ans✅ ✅: standard of care

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Question: You should attempt to resuscitate a patient who has no pulse
and is not breathing in which situation?

Ans✅ ✅: D)

The patient's advance directive is unavailable

Question: Which of the following patients should you identify as having
experienced a significant mechanism of injury?

Ans✅ ✅: A patient who has been stuck by a motor vehicle

Question: Which of the following is an example of a mechanism of
injury?

Ans✅ ✅: Explosion

Question: As an EMR, you should be able to -

Ans✅ ✅: provide basic emergency care

Question: When arriving at an emergency scene, you should first
ensure the safety of -

Ans✅ ✅: yourself

Question: Which GCS score leads you to suspect that a patient has a
severe brain injury?

Ans✅ ✅: 6

Question: You are performing a primary assessment. After obtaining a
general impression of the patient, which of the following should you do
next?

Ans✅ ✅: Assess the patient's level of consciousness (LOC)

Question: You are checking the pulse rate of a child who is alert and
responsive. Which artery should you most likely use to assess the pulse?

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Ans✅ ✅: radial

Question: The following are elements critical to the charge of
negligence. Which of the following needs to be met first for a charge of
negligence to be proven?

Ans✅ ✅: duty to act

Question: You are providing emergency care to a patient when he
suddenly tells you to stop and leave him alone. Which of the following
should you do first?

Ans✅ ✅: )

Acknowledge the patient's statement, stopping care immediately.

Question: You and another responder need to move a patient who
cannot walk, but is conscious from a secured accident scene to an
ambulance. Which technique is most appropriate?

Ans✅ ✅: Two-personal seat carry

Question: You are obtaining a SAMPLE history from a patient who tells
you "The last time I ate shrimp, I had a terrible reaction. I broke out in
hives all over my body." You record this statement in which portion of the
SAMPLE history?

Ans✅ ✅: Allergies

Question: The point of contact between the public and emergency
medical responders (EMRs) is -

Ans✅ ✅: Dispatch

Question: Innate immunity results from which of the following?

Ans✅ ✅: birth

Question: You are preparing to obtain a patient's blood pressure by
auscultation. Which piece of equipment if most important to have readily
available?