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EMT-Basic Test - Medical

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1. You arrive on scene to an unknown injury illness. Your initial impression of the patient leads you to check for arm drift. What are you looking for?   Proper mentation   Stroke signs   Signs of depression   Arm abrasions

2. When the body does not have enough insulin to break down the available sugars, it begins to consume the _____________ of the body.   Fatty acids   Stored fats   Glucose   Sucrose

3. The P in OPQRST stands for?   Provocation   Pertinent medical history   Present illness   Pulse

4. The endocrine system?   Involves the finger nails and skin   Is responsible for hemoglobin transport   Is a rarely used system in the autonomic structure   Produces hormones and secretes them into the blood

5. Inhalers with various medications are prescribed to patients who suffer from?   Bronchodilation   Bronchoconstriction   Bronchoretraction   Bronchodetraction

6. Topical medications are only used to treat?   Jungle fever   A specific area of the skin   Urticaria   Localized beta blockers

7. You are doing an assessment involving checking for facial droop - unilateral arm drift - and slurred speech. What are you likely looking for?   Alcohol poisoning   Stroke signs   Signs of depression   Facial abrasions

8. When someone has an upper airway obstruction you may hear sounds like?   Cheyne-Stokes breathing   Rhonchi   Ventalli Eronchi   High pitched wheezing when they breath in

9. Who is likely to be very thirsty?   A person with hypoglycemia   A person with hyperglycemia   A person with abdominal pain   A person in insulin shock

10. You and your partner Larry are dispatched to the call of a man with severe stomach pain. When you arrive on scene you find him laying on the floor of the kitchen in the fetal position. There is vomit on his face and he says he is going to throw up again. He denies falling and says the only thing wrong is that his stomach is killing him. Assessing his abdomen you find it to be very tender to the touch and he moans when you palpate his stomach. He is also breathing very fast at 30 a minute. What other signs and symptoms might you find with this patient?   Tachycardia - hypotension - fever   Bottle of poison - cyanosis and crepitus   Broken ribs - hypertension and deep rapid breathing   Rebound tenderness - metabolic acidosis

11. A patient who requires restraints should always be?   Transported prone in case they vomit   Transported supine   Strapped to a backboard and bagged with a BVM   Held with pressure from the knee to the middle of the back

12. In Prehospital emergency medicine the term lumen refers to?   How much light is in the ambulance   Inside diameter of a tube   Diameter of the outer cranium   The rapid loss of water

13. Which of the following is a high priority condition   Child birth   Severe pain   Controlled bleeding of the wrists   An adult breathing at 20 a minute

14. A man of average size and weight has approximately how much blood per kilo of body weight?   50 ml   60 ml   70 ml   100 ml

15. The O in OPQRST stands for?   Operations   Off set   Onset   Ordinary

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